The book review digest, Volume 16, 1920
part I of the book, is composed of short prose essays written for his
son. Part 2 contains his poems, the first of which, Magpies in Picardy, was printed in the Literary Digest in February, 1917.
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“Among the many poems inspired by the late war, ‘Magpies in Picardy’ has stood out as one of the very best. To every schoolboy in our land should a copy of ‘Waste paper philosophy’ be given. One closes the little book tenderly, for here is the record of a rare spirit.” C. K. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p2 N 27 ’20 800w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:648 D 29 ’20 200w
=WILSON, WOODROW.= Hope of the world. *$1 (2c) Harper 353
20–13562
This volume of speeches continues the series that began with “Why we are at war.” It contains “Messages and addresses delivered by the president between July 10, 1919, and December 9, 1919, including selections from his countrywide speeches in behalf of the treaty and covenant.” In making the selection from the addresses on the peace treaty and the League of nations the aim has been to avoid repetition and to present “the more cogent and significant portions of Mr Wilson’s appeal to the public.” Among the state papers are included the message on the high cost of living, letter to the national industrial conference, appeal to the coal miners, and message to the new Congress.
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“Nearly all have in greater or less degree the characteristic merits with which we have become familiar, and the title chosen for the collection hits very well the note of earnest, almost wistful, conviction that gives impressiveness and driving force to practically everything that President Wilson has said. There is much material here for reflection, and it is presented with the lucidity and grace that we have learned to respect.”
+ − =Grinnell R= 15:262 O ’20 150w
=WINDLE, SIR BERTRAM COGHILL ALAN.= Science and morals. *$2.75 Kenedy 215
“Sir Bertram Windle, the distinguished Roman Catholic scientist, now professor of anthropology in St Michael’s college, Toronto, collects here (with some revision) nine essays which he has contributed to the Dublin Review, the Catholic World, America and Studies. Apart from the title essay he writes on Theophobia and Nemesis; on the narrowness of the strictly scientific, especially the biological view (Within and without the system); on the relation of the Roman church to science (Science in ‘bondage’); Science and the war; Heredity and ‘arrangement’; Special creation; Catholic writers and spontaneous generation; and he reviews Mr F. H. Osborn’s ‘The origin and evolution of life.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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=Ath= p126 Ja 23 ’20 50w
“This is worth while and very much worth while. It is worth while as a readable and popularly rendered contribution to apologetical literature; it is very much worth while because it is a contribution from a recognized scientist on a subject of wide scientific consequence.”
+ =Cath World= 111:253 My ’20 360w
=Int J Ethics= 31:120 O ’20 130w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p158 Mr 4 ’20 100w
=WISE, JENNINGS CROPPER.= Turn of the tide. *$1.50 (3c) Holt 940.373
20–4806
Cantigny, Château Thierry, and the second battle of the Marne are the three operations in which the American troops made their initial appearance in battle in the great war and which mark the transition of the Allies from the defensive to the offensive and the turn of the tide of victory in their favor. The author was a member of the Historical section of the General staff of the American expeditionary force for a number of months after the armistice, had access to the archives at General headquarters, came in contact with many of the leaders of the war and visited and made a careful study of every battlefield of which he writes. The three battles are the subjects of the three chapters of the book which also has a number of maps and appendices.
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=Boston Transcript= p4 Je 9 ’20 150w
=WISTER, OWEN.= Straight deal; or, The ancient grudge. *$2 (2c) Macmillan 327
20–7009
The ancient grudge is the American feeling of ill-will toward England. This anti-English prejudice is explained by the author as a “complex” founded on false history teaching in childhood and fostered by Great Britain’s enemies. He reviews the history of our relations with England from the revolution down and says in conclusion: “In this many-peopled world England is our nearest relation. From Bonaparte to the Kaiser, never has she allowed any outsider to harm us. We are her cub. She has often clawed us, and we have clawed her in return.... Her good treatment of us has been to her own interest.... If we were so far-seeing as she is, we also should know that her good will is equally important to us.”
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“Mr Wister’s purpose in his new book commands our sympathies. He has good intentions, but he is just a shade too friendly. He presses our hand a little too enthusiastically.”
− + =Ath= p825 Je 25 ’20 730w
=Booklist= 16:332 Jl ’20
“Mr Wister is too good a writer of fiction to be quite satisfactory as a historian. He relies too much upon imagination and invention; he deals with historic personages as though they were characters in a novel, to be managed as the requirements of the plot dictate. The fact is that this book of Mr Wister’s, like his earlier ‘Pentecost of calamity,’ is a product of war psychology. It is a case of off with the old hate, on with the new.” R. L. Schuyler
− =Bookm= 51:566 Jl ’20 1000w
=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 10 ’20 150w
“Hysterical and rather silly book. To put it bluntly, Mr Wister has far to go before he recovers from the panic psychology of the war. Mr Wister is the victim of economic innocence and of a sincere admiration, which does him credit, for English civilization.” H. S.
− + =Freeman= 1:549 Ag 18 ’20 900w
“Makes many true and effective points, but is a little exclusive in its attitude towards nations outside the frontiers of Anglo-Saxondom.”
+ − =Ind= 103:292 S 4 ’20 40w
“Mr Wister’s frivolity and fatuity are basic. He has his grip on the facts of Anglo-American history. In this region he escapes being a jingo and, what is more, he escapes being a toady, at least nine times out of ten. But once he tries to grip the facts of the world, outside Anglo-America, he is dangerously sentimental and at sea.” F. H.
− =New Repub= 22:319 My 5 ’20 1250w
“His is not a calm judicial mind; he is very much a partisan and a fighter. His vehemence now and then runs to the choler of the elderly man who dogmatizes angrily from his club window. Apropos of America’s attitude toward England, we learn the writer’s opinion of Roosevelt, of Secretary Daniels, of Admiral Sims, and so on. I for one regret his occasional fling of cynicism.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p13 My 8 ’20 1150w
“Mr Owen Wister has written a good book; and in writing it he has done a good deed. Mr Wister knows the English at home and abroad; he is an American of the Americans, but he is a grandson of Fanny Kemble and he has both relatives and relations in England. He is therefore unusually well equipped to discuss the social usages and the national peculiarities of the two countries.” Brander Matthews
+ =N Y Times= 25:235 My 9 ’20 2300w
“A very readable book. We do not agree with him, or with the politicians and the press men, in thinking that friendship can be ensured by books, and speeches, and leading articles.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:404 My 1 ’20 1550w
“Unfortunately, the book will not attain its end. For this Mr Wister is himself to blame. Much of the work is trivial arguments. It will not be any better to write our history with deliberate sympathies than with deliberate antipathies.”
− =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 18 ’20 350w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p263 Ap 29 ’20 550w
=WITHAM, GEORGE STRONG.= Modern pulp and paper making; a practical treatise. il $6 Chemical catalog co., 1 Madison av., N.Y. 676
20–19275
The author has had thirty-seven years’ practical experience in the pulp and paper industry. He is now manager of mills for the Union bag and paper corporation, Hudson Falls, N.Y. His aim in this book has been “to describe the equipment and processes actually used in pulp and paper plants on this continent today.... No attempt has been made to describe every piece of equipment ever used in the industry. Neither has the author attempted to deal with the historical aspect. Also, while recognizing the great importance of chemistry in connection with papermaking, no chemical considerations have been introduced which would not readily be comprehended by one with no special knowledge of that science.” (Preface) Contents: Processes by which pulp is produced; Materials from which pulp is produced; Varieties of paper; The saw mill; The wood room; The sulphite mill; The acid plant; The soda process; The sulphate process; The ground wood mill; Bleaching; The beater room; The machine room; The finishing room; General design of pulp and paper plants; The power plant; Testing of paper and paper materials; Paper defects: their cause and cure; Personnel; Useful data and tables; Index. There are over 200 figures in the text.
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=Booklist= 17:101 D ’20
“This is the first book on the subject of paper-making that we have ever read that is really worth while; it is a practical treatise on paper technology that bears the stamp of genuine authority. One subject, however, in the book which has been somewhat summarily dealt with is that relating to the dyeing and coloring of paper. In its typographical makeup the present volume is a credit to its publishers.”
+ − =Color Trade J= 7:118 O ’20 460w
“For ‘the man on the job’ this is, on the whole, a much more satisfactory work than that of Cross and Bevan; moreover it deals only with American practice. The practical aspect of the book should be emphasized.”
+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p69 Jl ’20 100w
=WITWER, HARRY CHARLES.= Kid Scanlan. *$1.75 (2½c) Small
20–10733
Kid Scanlan, welterweight champion, goes into the movies and this is the story of his adventures as told by his manager, Johnny Green. Among the titles of chapters, each of which constitutes a short story, are: Lay off, Macduff; Pleasure island; Lend me your ears; The unhappy medium; Life is reel! Hospital stuff.
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“This book may be scoffed at by the more intellectual, but the wideness of its appeal is evident.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 340w
“A humorous mixture of extravagance and slang in Witwer’s happiest vein.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 110w
=WITWER, HARRY CHARLES.= There’s no base like home. il *$1.75 (3c) Doubleday
20–9784
A combination of baseball and the movies. Ed Harmon, “the undisputed monarch of the diamond,” continues the series of letters to his friend Joe, and tells what happened after he brought his French wife, Jeanne, to New York. Jeanne not only learns English, she undertakes to teach that language to her husband. She also goes into the movies, and drags her reluctant husband with her. Jeanne’s relatives come from France to pay a surprise visit, but as suddenly return, inspiring their son-in-law to give three cheers for prohibition. The stories are: There’s no base like home; She supes to conquer: A fool there wasn’t; So this is Cincinnati!; The merchant of Venus; The freedom of the shes; A word to the wives; The nights of Colombus; The league of relations.
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=Booklist= 17:76 N ’20
“Abounding in picturesque slang, unusual figures of speech and shrewd comment on present-day tendencies and foibles.”
+ =Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 70w
“In a certain way, Witwer’s stories remind one of Keystone comedies, although, of course, they are not quite so far-fetched in their incongruous situations. This kind of patter is handled with skill by Mr Witwer, who hardly ever descends to a too-obvious cheapness.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:27 Jl 25 ’20 340w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 11 ’20 200w
=WODEHOUSE, PELHAM GRENVILLE.= Little warrior. *$2 (1½c) Doran
20–18298
Jill Mariner is an American girl brought up in England. In her, cheerfulness and impulsive kindliness are counterbalanced by pride and quick temper. Between the two she never succumbs to any situation, but fights her way through. There are abrupt changes in her circumstances. From possessing a fortune and being engaged to an English peer, she drops to the position of chorus girl in an American musical comedy. After a brief but stormy career of a tragi-comical nature—with the emphasis on the comical—and after being wooed a second time by Sir Derek, she decides that she loves Wally Mason, her girlhood chum and now a writer of musical comedy in New York, best.
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=Booklist= 17:162 Ja ’21
“So much of current fiction is touched with glowering realism or sour-mouthed cleverness that such real spontaneity and good humor as Mr Wodehouse’s is irresistible.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 52:343 Ja ’21 290w
“The author manages to play upon even such a light-eroded spot as Forty-second street and Broadway with such piquant and Americanesquely touch-and-go ironical sparkle, such color and deft comedy tempo, as to leave with the reader an illusion of freshness and a complex of winning aftertones.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 200w
“The gay comedy-romance is a top-notcher of its kind. The reader who doesn’t chuckle over this melange of English and American slang will have to be determinedly gloomy.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 O 10 ’20 530w
“The tale is capital burlesque with a warm touch of human nature.”
+ =Outlook= 126:470 N 10 ’20 50w
=WOLCOTT, THERESA HUNT=, ed. Book of games and parties for all occasions. il *$2 Small 793
20–19282
The material for the book has largely been compiled from the entertainment page of the Ladies’ Home Journal. The contents are intended to furnish entertainments for home, school and church parties, beginning with New Year’s Eve, extending throughout the year and taking in all the holidays of a general and private character, with invitations, menus for special occasions, appropriate rhymes and poetry, illustrations and an index.
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=Booklist= 17:104 D ’20
=WOOD, CLEMENT.= Jehovah. *$2 Dutton 811
20–8539
A long narrative poem with frequent lyric interludes. The time is 1034 B. C., in the reign of David. David’s forces under Joab, sweeping south, spoiling and conquering in the name of their God, Jehovah, meet the resistance of the Kenites, the hill dwellers of Mount Sinai whose tribal God Jehovah is. Demanding tribute for their king and worship for their God, the Israelites are faced with the Kenites’ claim for priority in Jehovah worship, Moses having learned it from his Kenite father-in-law, Jethro. In the conference that follows two conceptions of Jehovah are set forth. The tribal god of the Kenites is opposed to the imperialist god of Israel. By trickery Joab outwits the weaker forces and falls upon them unawares to slay and exterminate, all for the glory of Jehovah. Toward the end a new conception of God is developed, the God of brotherhood as visioned by the prophet Jotham. The poem was awarded one of the Lyric poetry prizes for 1919.
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+ =Booklist= 17:148 Ja ’21
“If it won the Lyric prize, it was hardly for its lyrism. Still, the poem is dramatic, the characterization interesting, and some of the passages genuinely powerful.”
+ − =Dial= 69:435 O ’20 90w
“When Clement Wood wrote ‘Jehovah’ he took the chance at being dull on the bigger chance of successfully writing a poem about an evolving god. He fails, and he is dull; but there is a sort of leaden grandeur about the attempt.” R. D.
− + =Freeman= 1:382 Jl 7 ’20 120w
“It has, curiously, a flavor of ‘Beowulf’ rather than of the Hebrew poets and prophets. It is written in a variety of verse forms, many of them interesting.”
+ − =Ind= 104:246 N 13 ’20 80w
“‘Jehovah’ suffers from a too constant strenuousness of reach and a too mighty savagery of diction; there is more motion than flow, more activity than strength. Yet certain of the songs genuinely mount; and Uz, the wrinkled patriarch, spokesman for the Kenites, is a triumph in portraiture.” Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 120w
“The various songs about Jehovah sung by the two conflicting tribes of warriors, are replete with beauty that is made more significant and meaningful because there are depths to the thoughts expressed. There is an unmistaken classic air about Clement Wood’s ‘Jehovah.’” Alvin Winston
+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 430w
“The grim expectancy in the tale is a strong point. There are cases, unfortunately, in which the vocabulary, not the conception, is herculean, in which it is only the dictionary that bares its thews.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 380w
“The poem is a faithful attempt to produce a visualization of men and events of 3000 years ago. It is hardly distinguished, but it shows considerable knowledge of the subject.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 210w
=WOOD, CLEMENT.= Mountain. *$2.50 Dutton
20–8518
“Pelham Judson grows up on the mountain, the son of the successful exploiter of its resources in iron; goes to Yale and absorbs the conventional social ideals (including an exploit as a strikebreaker); leads an almost preposterously chaste life, which he compensates for after his marriage to Jane by a delayed affair with Louise; returning to Adamsville after graduation, becomes converted to the cause of labor and socialism and is one of the leaders in the long drawn-out strike in the mines. The result of the conversion is, of course, permanent estrangement from his father and mother, the former the leader of the standpat forces.”—New Repub
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“A heterogeneous mass of capital and labour, love and catastrophe. Mr Wood’s masterful portrayal of the negro race, however, furnishes a background which puts his high-lights to shame and leaves us the hope that he will visualize the white race with equal clarity.”
− + =Dial= 69:663 D ’20 60w
“Love, it may be said, Mr Wood presents more convincingly than economics. The characters of his story, never clearly realized, make sudden and inexplicable shifts of attitude to meet the necessities of a somewhat vaguely conceived plot, just as his social theories are strained to make destructive facts work toward constructive ends.” H. S. H.
+ − =Freeman= 1:574 Ag 25 ’20 360w
“One looks in vain for a single passage of supreme beauty, for one arresting phrase; yet there is in the book an undercurrent of power rare in a first novel.”
+ − =Grinnell R= 15:285 N ’20 620w
“From the point of view of art the mind is unpersuaded and the imagination a blank. The book is all haste and over-eagerness. The creative hand has scarcely touched it yet.”
− =Nation= 111:276 S 4 ’20 340w
“This is an uncommonly fine bit of work, for a first novel. The working class type is a real one, not a caricature. Yet the chief protagonists, Pelham Judson in particular, do not come into the reader’s experience with that unerring finality which is always the mark of sure imaginative creation. They are not inconsistent; they are plausible; they are unfailingly interesting. But they are mere sketches, not realities.” H. S.
+ − =New Repub= 23:286 Ag 4 ’20 1250w
“With ‘Mountain’ Clement Wood has added 335 pages to the little heaps of worthwhile contemporary literature.” A. W. Welch
+ =N Y Call= p10 Ag 15 ’20 600w
− =N Y Times= 25:21 Jl 11 ’20 330w
“The novel reflects truthfully and interestingly an ardent if not entirely substantial type of temperament.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 300w
=WOOD, ERIC FISHER.= Leonard Wood: conservator of Americanism. il *$2 (3c) Doran
20–3861
The author admires the subject of his biography as the conservator and champion of Americanism, for his work at Plattsburg, his pleas for preparedness and his dignified reticence about himself. His flawless record in the past the author hopes gives just grounds for predicting a still greater career for him in the future. “He has ever been a true prophet in all matters pertaining to the political and military welfare of his native land, its allies and dependencies. He has never had to make excuses, for although the administrative tasks successively allotted to him have been vast in scope, he has never in any one of them fallen short of exceptional success.” (Conclusion) Contents: Ancestry and boyhood; Personal characteristics; As a surgeon; The Geronimo campaign; The Spanish-American war; Governor of Santiago; The Wood method; Appointed governor of Cuba; Governor of Cuba; Turning their government over to Cubans; The conquest of yellow fever; The Rathbone case; Governor of the Moro province; Dato Ali; The military administrator; The conservator of Americanism; The world war; Illustrations, appendix and index.
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=Dial= 68:540 Ap ’20 60w
=R Of Rs= 61:444 Ap ’20 220w
“A most interesting and most readable book.”
+ =Spec= 124:48 Jl 10 ’20 1900w
“Although Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Wood is an indifferent biographer, his book contains several oases of competent writing. Thus he gives a graphic sketch of the Geronimo campaign, and his account of the Cuban operations is soldierly and useful.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p382 Je 17 ’20 850w
=WOOD, FREDERIC JAMES.= Turnpikes of New England and evolution of the same through England, Virginia and Maryland. il $10 Jones, Marshall 386
20–1059
“A detailed history of each of the many turnpike companies, such as is here furnished, offers a great deal to interest the engineer, and, from one point of view, summarizes the economic development of the country from the close of the revolution to the middle of the nineteenth century.” (Review) “The author, an engineer, has included everything—engineering problems, history, finance, management, vehicles, description.” (Booklist)
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+ =Booklist= 16:230 Ap ’20
“It is written in a fascinating style, full of good humor, replete with stories and historical incidents, and its enthusiastic verve carries the reader from start to finish.” N. H. D.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 1000W
“A handsome volume of which both author and publisher have reason to be proud.”
+ =Review= 2:311 Mr 27 ’20 300w
=WOOD, IRVING FRANCIS.=[2] Heroes of early Israel. il *$2 Macmillan 220.9
20–17159
“‘Heroes of early Israel’ is one of the Great leaders series. It seeks to tell in a popular manner the stories of the old Hebrew heroes whose lives are too often lost for the young in the more difficult portions of the Bible.”—N Y Times
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=Booklist= 17:93 D ’20
“The book is intended especially for use in schools, but many will like to put it into the hands of their children as an introduction to Biblical study.” Hildegarde Hawthorne
+ =N Y Times= p9 D 12 ’20 70w
=WOOD, LEONARD.= Leonard Wood on national issues; comp. by Evan J. David. pa *$1.25 (8c) Doubleday 308
20–7495
“In compiling this book the object has been to collect representative statements from the speeches and writings of General Leonard Wood on national problems.” (Compiler’s introd.) Among the subjects covered are: How Cuba won self-determination; Capital, labor and the golden rule; American women—today and tomorrow; War and peace; The league of nations; The farmer—his rights and wrongs; Teachers, moulders of the future; Immigration without assimilation: Americanization. In addition to the compiler’s introduction there is a foreword by Edward S. Van Zile.
=WOODBERRY, GEORGE EDWARD.= Roamer, and other poems. *$1.75 Harcourt 811
20–7800
The greater part of the book is taken up by “The roamer,” a long poem in four books symbolizing the soul’s pilgrimage through the ages and its upward progress. A sonnet sequence, Ideal passion, Poems of the great war, and a group of Sonnets and lyrics complete the volume.
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“For those who like conventional, idealistic poetry.”
+ =Booklist= 16:339 Jl ’20
“Mr Woodberry’s lines are penned with such precision, dignity, and grace, and express so noble an enterprise, that one feels they should not be allowed to perish without protest. And yet they fail to stir. Is it that Mr Woodberry is too much merely the inheritor of Victorian maladies and philosophies?” L. M. R.
+ − =Freeman= 2:21 S 15 ’20 320w
“As an occasional poet Mr Woodberry is not exciting after the occasion has passed; in the present period of enforced listlessness toward the war, his poems on that occasion, at least, seem good work thrown away, seem good words robbed of their right to ring. Mr Woodberry is more surely a poet when he is a Platonist, as in ‘Ideal passion,’ on the whole the most vibrant portion of his recent output.” Mark Van Doren
+ − =Nation= 111:sup415 O 13 ’20 220w
“Professor Woodberry’s book must be accounted one of the genuine poetical achievements of the year, but it will hardly make a wide appeal to this generation.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 380w
“‘Ideal passion’ is excellent, while the ‘Roamer’ is valuable only to specialists in literature or disciples of Mr Woodberry. The shorter poems in the volume are vastly better than the ‘Roamer,’ but attain no equality with ‘Ideal passion.’” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 3:170 Ag 25 ’20 800w
=WOODHOUSE, HENRY.= Textbook of applied aeronautic engineering. il *$6 Century 629.1
20–5220
“The bulk of this book is devoted to a description of existing machines, but in the first chapter the author declares that for commercial success the aeroplane should be built to carry twenty tons of useful load, and considers how this can be done. Other chapters consist largely of reprints of papers and documents, many from American sources, relating to aeroplane and seaplane engineering in the U.S.A. navy, the theory of flight, rigging, alinement, maintenance and repairs, and the value of plywood in fuselage construction.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 400w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p474 Jl 22 ’20 80w
=WOODHOUSE, THOMAS, and KILGOUR, P.= Cordage and cordage hemp and fibres. (Pitman’s common commodities and industries ser.) il $1 Pitman 677
20–7601
An introductory chapter suggesting something of the early history of cordage is followed by: Definition of cordage and sources of fibres; Classification of fibres; The cultivation of hemp; Retting, breaking and scutching; The cultivation of plants for hard fibres; The preparing and spinning machinery for hemp and other soft fibres; The preparing and spinning machinery for manila and other hard fibres; Twines, cords and lines; Ropes and rope-making; Yarn numbering; Marketing. There are 31 illustrations and an index. The authors are connected with the Dundee technical college and school of art.
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=N Y P L New Tech Bks= p41 Ap ’20 50w
=WOODS, ARTHUR.= Policeman and public. *$1.35 Yale univ. press 352.2
20–1368
“‘The policeman and public,’ by Lieut.-Col. Arthur Woods, former police commissioner of New York city, places in book form the author’s lectures in the Dodge course at Yale on the ‘Responsibilities of citizenship.’ Points discussed are: The puzzling law; The policeman as Judge; The people’s advocate; Methods of law enforcement; Esprit de corps; Reward and punishment; Grafting; Influence; Police leadership; and The public’s part.”—Springf’d Republican
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“Throughout the book is a sympathetic discussion of the problems from the standpoint of the policeman. At the same time Mr Woods appreciates the reasons for the sometimes hostile attitude of the public toward the police.” J. L. Gillin
+ =Am J Soc= 25:794 My ’20 600w
Reviewed by G. H. McCaffrey
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:527 Ag ’20 340w
“A popular and interesting presentation of the problems and methods of the police, and of the ways in which the public may cooperate to add effectiveness to the service.”
+ =Booklist= 16:190 Mr ’20
“Colonel Woods has done a great service to the policemen of the entire country by putting their case fairly before the public.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 120w
“The little book is instructive and intensely interesting.”
+ =Cath World= 111:118 Ap ’20 220w
+ =Outlook= 124:203 F 4 ’20 70w
“Entertaining and instructive, not only to those connected with an important branch of municipal government and to applicants for places therein but to the public generally.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 D 30 ’19 300w
“They are made lively reading by a mass of illustrative anecdotes.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p287 My 6 ’20 100w
=WOODS, GLENN H.= Public school orchestras and bands. il $2 Ditson 785
20–9484
In realization of the growing importance of music in our educational curriculum this book is offered to meet in particular the needs of the teacher who has no knowledge of instrumental music. It emphasizes three essentials for the instrumental work in the public school system: that the instruments for the band and orchestra be supplied to the children; that the work begin in the lower grades of the elementary schools and be carried through the high school; and that the instruction be given by special teachers of instrumental music. Among the contents are: Importance of instrumental instruction; Preparation of teachers: How to organize instrumental instruction; Instruction in the elementary schools; Instruction in the high schools; Conducting; Suggestions about tuning; How to assemble an orchestra score; Transposition; List of band and orchestra music, and instruction books. There is an appendix and numerous illustrations.
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“For music leaders who lack professional training this book will be most helpful. It is practical, concise, and is written by one who has first-hand knowledge of the problem.”
+ =El School J= 21:318 D ’20 220w
=WOODWORTH, HERBERT G.= In the shadow of Lantern street. *$1.75 (1½c) Small
20–3063
The hero of this story is a little boy in China when the story opens. He knows nothing of his parentage and believes himself to be Chinese. But he really is white and his American father, altho unwilling to recognize his son, still takes him, at sixteen, back to the United States and educates him. Most of the story is taken up with the tale of the young man’s striving to accommodate himself to American ideals, especially in relation to women. Two women come into his life, Bess and Barbara. To Bess he found marriage to mean the reversal of the Chinese idea—her husband was to become her chattel. Fortunately he found out in time and with Barbara is promised the happiness that comes with love that means partnership.
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“It is apparent that Mr Woodworth knows China well, for he has framed in these early pages a picture that is very foreign and that contains a large number of realistic details. If Mr Woodworth had succeeded in keeping his entire novel as vivid as these early chapters it would have been no mean achievement.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p9 My 8 ’20 1000w
“There is some good material in the book, but the treatment lacks color, and shows no sense either of dramatic values, of style or of character. Such faint interest as the story has flickers out entirely as soon as the hero leaves China, which he does on the sixty-third page.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:4 Mr 7 ’20 300w
“The early portions of the narrative are interesting because of an atmosphere of adventure and exploration; the later phases are speculative and analytical.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 5 ’20 250w
=WOOLF, LEONARD SIDNEY.= Empire and commerce in Africa; a study in economic imperialism. *$7 Macmillan 960
(Eng ed 20–3421)
“Omitting consideration of Egypt, Mr Woolf records in detail the history of those portions of Africa which fell under the influence of European imperialism. Separate chapters are devoted to Algeria, Tunis, Tripoli, Abyssinia, Zanzibar, and the Belgian Congo. In all cases the sequence of events as disclosed by the narrative is much the same. The awakening of covetous desire in the hearts of European statesmen; the entering wedge of commercial or financial enterprize, ostensibly promoted by private initiative but in reality fostered by the state; the eventual declaration by the home government of its intention to guarantee the integrity of the economic advantages thus gained by its citizens; the marking out of spheres of influence; the friction aroused between the powers by the crossing of imperialistic purposes, and the threat of war; the adjustment of these international differences by the devious methods of diplomacy, and the final emergence of the victor secure in the possession of the spoils. No patriotic bias is shown in the record. France, Italy, England, Germany, and Belgium are accused impartially of sordid motives and heartless conduct. A generous equipment of maps illustrates the text, and a reproduction of the necessary documents lends support to the narrative of diplomatic intrigue.”—Am Econ R
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“A high order of merit is shown by the writer in his skillful disentangling of the strands of intrigue in which the imperialistic aims of the rival states are involved, and in the accomplishment of his main intent: to set forth clearly the sequence of events which discloses the true purpose of Europe in its penetration into Africa. Even those readers who cannot agree that a single motive actuates the modern state in its imperial policy will find this study of the progress of empire in Africa illuminating and suggestive.” E. S. Furniss
+ − =Am Econ R= 10:575 S ’20 1100w
Reviewed by W. E. B. Du Bois
=Nation= 111:352 S 25 ’20 580w
“This is a book of great value and startling candor. It will remind some of a Veblen satire, but it is more concrete and human than that.” W. E. B. Du Bois
+ =Survey= 44:310 My 29 ’20 700w
“The merits of the book are that it bears evidence of much research, though always on the one side and directed to proving what the author wants to prove, and that it is not greatly disfigured by indiscriminate abuse or by anti-patriotic bias.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p75 F 5 ’20 1950w
=WOOLF, VIRGINIA (STEPHEN) (MRS LEONARD WOOLF).= Night and day. *$2.25 Doran
20–19042
A long and slow-moving story dealing with a criss-crossing of love affairs. Katharine Hilbery, granddaughter of the poet Alardyce, is engaged with her mother in writing the poet’s life. Her father is editor of a literary review and all her associations are of a literary character. In secret however her predilections are for mathematics and she spends lonely midnight hours with Euclid. She becomes engaged to William Rodney, author of poetic dramas, altho she feels herself drawn to Ralph Denham, a masterful young man of no family or position. Ralph maintains a platonic friendship with Mary Datchet, a suffrage worker, who loves him and refuses his lukewarm offer of marriage for that reason. Katharine’s cousin Cassandra comes to town and captivates William, setting Katharine free to marry Ralph. This leaves everyone provided for except Mary, who continues to devote her life to causes. Considerable care is devoted to the delineation of minor characters.
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“It is impossible to refrain from comparing ‘Night and day’ with the novels of Miss Austen. There are moments, indeed, when one is almost tempted to cry it Miss Austen up-to-date. It is extremely cultivated, distinguished and brilliant, but above all—deliberate. There is not a chapter where one is unconscious of the writer, of her personality, her point of view, and her control of the situation.” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p1227 N 21 ’19 1350w
“The half expressed thought, the interrupted sentences by which the action of ‘Night and day’ proceeds, are baffling. Carry this sort of thing a few steps further and you have Maeterlinck. Yet even this intent study of a fragmentary and delicate thing strikes one as in the spirit of Tennyson’s ‘flower in the crannied wall’ whose complete comprehension means comprehension of what God and man is.” R. M. Underhill
+ − =Bookm= 51:685 Ag ’20 350w
“‘Night and day’ is perhaps less fine than ‘The voyage out’; it is not quite all of a piece as the other book almost miraculously is, or perhaps the ancient fact that comedy is less impressive than tragedy weighs in its effect. But it is an ample book.” C. M. Rourke
+ =New Repub= 22:320 My 5 ’20 350w
“This novel of Mrs Woolf’s is profoundly irritating. She has devoted such fine ability, such remarkable understanding, to the description of the doings of people profoundly unimportant and insignificant.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p22 O 23 ’20 200w
“All of the characters are drawn with art; their thoughts and actions are minutely observed and dissected. In point of literary style the book is distinctive.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 450w
“The narrative moves tardily along, and to the story, as such, one becomes somewhat indifferent. But in fresh characterization of its people and in charming pictures of England, especially of London, the work never fails.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 D 7 ’20 200w
“Round each scene and round the tale as a whole sound sympathetic notes, that are not definitely struck, but respond to those which are. We feel the dignity of a love-story worthily told. We see much more than we are shown. ‘Night and day’ is a book full of wisdom.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p607 O 30 ’19 1250w
=WOOLF, VIRGINIA (STEPHEN) (MRS LEONARD WOOLF).= Voyage out. *$2.25 (1½c) Doran
20–8627
In this kaleidoscopic picture of real life, people come and go with all their commonplace attributes. They are natural people and act naturally without any dramatic high lights to throw them into relief. To make the events transpire in a little world of their own a shipboard is chosen and a tourist’s hotel on a South-American mountain side. Helen Ambrose, wife of a Greek scholar, is put in charge of a niece, twenty years her junior, who at the age of twenty-four is still a child in world wisdom and experience. Helen, with rare insight and good sense, undertakes to initiate her into a larger life. In South America they meet the tourists—a variety of types compressed into a miniature world. Here Rachel unfolds and the greatest of experiences, love, comes her way, and there it all ends. Rachel falls a victim to the treacherous climate.
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“To the reviewer, the opportunity to read about people who are real, but intelligent, is an unusual delight. These people employ self-control and common sense, even as you and I, and the plot proceeds without misunderstanding or murder.” R. M. Underhill
+ =Bookm= 51:685 Ag ’20 350w
“The story is strangely lacking in construction. It has neither beginning nor end nor single point of view, but it is thoroly interesting, a distinctly unusual book.”
+ − =Ind= 103:53 Jl 10 ’20 250w
“For all its tragic interest ‘The voyage out’ is not low-keyed; it even has a slight buoyancy of tone, as if clear perception itself brought a continual zest to its writer. Mrs Woolf has the diversity of power which makes the great writer of narrative.” C. M. Rourke
+ =New Repub= 22:320 My 5 ’20 1150w
“This English novel gives promise in its opening chapters of much entertainment. Later, the reader is disappointed. That the author knows her London in its most interesting aspects there can be no doubt. But aside from a certain cleverness—which, being all in one key, palls on one after going through a hundred pages of it—there is little in this offering to make it stand out from the ruck of mediocre novels which make far less literary pretension.”
− + =N Y Times= 25:308 Je 13 ’20 450w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:318 O 13 ’20 620w
“As a first novel, it shows promise but is not well-rounded. Portrayal of women and scholarly elderly men is keen and well handled; that of younger and ‘red-blooded’ young men somewhat unsatisfactory.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Jl 4 ’20 380w
=WOOLMAN, MRS MARY (SCHENCK).= Clothing: choice, care, cost. (Lippincott’s family life ser.) il *$2 Lippincott 646
20–26997
“This book faces the every-day living conditions of the people and treats clothing in its selection, use, care and cost. It is the result of many years of personal experience in technical and popular instruction in textiles and clothing to college students, ... to women’s clubs, to young wage earners, ... to buyers and managers in the retail trade, and recently, during the war, as a textile specialist in the service of the government among home keepers and extension leaders.” (Preface) Contents: Thrift in clothing; Woolen and worsted clothing; Cotton clothing; Silk clothing; Linen for clothing and household; Clothing accessories; Clothing and health; Intelligent shopping; Serviceable clothing; The clothing budget and the wardrobe; The care, repair and renovation of clothing; Dyeing, laundry and spot removal; A clothing information bureau; Planning for clothing progress; Appendix—made-over garments, with charts, bibliography, glossary; Illustrations and index.
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“Useful to students, housekeepers and retail dealers.”
+ =Booklist= 17:102 D ’20
=WORKS, JOHN DOWNEY.= Juridical reform. *$1.50 (3c) Neale 347
20–1529
“A critical comparison of pleading and practice under the common law and equity systems of practice, the English judicature acts, and codes of the several states of this country, with a view to greater efficiency and economy.” (Sub-title) “This little book is intended not only to point out some of the changes in the laws of pleading, practice, and procedure, necessary to mitigate present conditions resulting in interminable delays and enormous expense in maintaining the courts and the administration of justice, but also to show that a large part of the delays, and consequent unnecessary expense of litigation, is not brought about by defective laws alone but by the dilatory and faulty administration of the laws we have.” (Preface) Contents: Courts; Actions; Pleadings; The demurrer; Empaneling juries; Examination of witnesses; Taking cases under advisement; Briefs; Written opinions; Findings; Continuances; Appeals; Rules of court; Reports of decisions; Efficiency; Appendix.
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“He writes with an apparent knowledge of his subject and with a high degree of common sense and authority.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 28 ’20 120w
“There is much in this little volume that entitles it to the attention of every voter, certainly of every public-spirited lawyer.” E: S. Corwin
+ =Review= 3:449 N 10 ’20 380w
=WRAY, W. J., and FERGUSON, R. W.=, eds. Day continuation school at work. *$3 (*8s 6d) Longmans 374.8
20–18400
“The editors have brought together the discussions of twelve individual contributors, each paper constituting a chapter of the book and dealing with some more or less specific phase of the writer’s experience in organizing and conducting the scheme of training described. The introductory chapter, written by one of the editors, is a general discussion of the necessity for continued education and the relation of day continuation schools to the national educational system. The next chapter is a rather full description of the plan of administration of a girls’ continuation school, written by the head-mistress. This is followed by a similar account of a boys’ school by its head-master. In each case explicit statements are made concerning the curriculum, grading, discipline, and the usual problems of administration. The several chapters following, each written by an instructor in one or the other of these schools, take up such topics as Problems of class teaching in a boys’ day continuation school, The teaching of mathematics and science in a day continuation school for boys, Physical training in a girls’ school, and Arts and crafts. The last two chapters present the employers’ own statement of their attitude toward continuation education and their impressions of the value of the plan here described.”—School R
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=School R= 28:714 N ’20 400w
“‘A day continuation school at work’ has particularly interesting sections dealing with camp and outdoor schools, but it does not achieve quite the modern spirit.”
+ − =Spec= 125:404 S 25 ’20 100w
Reviewed by M. C. Calkins
+ =Survey= 45:610 Ja 22 ’21 520w
=WRIGHT, GEORGE E.= Practical views on psychic phenomena. *$1.60 (4c) Harcourt 130
20–27481
There is still much confusion of thought, even among people of considerable general culture, on the subject of super-normal phenomena, says the author. In order to help the reader to steer clear, on the one hand, of illogical skepticism and, on the other, of unreasoning credulity, the book endeavors to lay down the broad lines on which an examination of the published records in the chief departments of psychical research should be carried out, and to summarize briefly the evidence and put forward the conclusions to which they have led the author. Contents: Evidence in general; Telepathy; Physical phenomena; Materialization and spirit photography; Communication with the disembodied: (1) the methods; (2) the evidence; Conclusion.
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“This sensible and restrained introduction for the layman gives an unbiased summary of the evidence in the case for psychical research.”
+ =Booklist= 17:138 Ja ’21
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 30w
Reviewed by Joseph Jastrow
=Review= 3:42 Jl 14 ’20 950w
“He approaches the whole subject in a singularly cautious spirit; and his careful and candid examination of the nature of evidence in psychical research and of different theories is worth reading.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p175 Mr 11 ’20 160w
=WRIGHT, HENRY PARKS.= Young man and teaching. (Vocational ser.) *$1.50 Macmillan 371
20–2127
“In ‘The young man and teaching,’ by Henry Parks Wright, the author, who is dean of Yale college, discusses every aspect of the teaching profession, laying particular emphasis on the psychological qualifications of the man who would devote his life to teaching. Among the chapter headings are the following: Teaching as a profession; Objections to the vocation considered; Personal qualifications; Educational preparation; Instruction; Government; Rules and penalties; Teaching in college, and others.”—N Y Times
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+ =Booklist= 16:332 Jl ’20
“His book is thorough and suggestive.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p11 Ap 3 ’20 130w
+ =Cleveland= p55 My ’20 50w
=N Y Times= 25:296 Je 6 ’20 100w
“Some of the author’s sentiments are tinged with those of the ‘old school,’ but a majority of his thoughts about teaching are strictly up to date and unquestionably true.”
+ − =School R= 28:392 My ’20 400w
=WRIGHT, ROWLAND.= Disappearance of Kimball Webb. *$1.75 (3c) Dodd
20–819
Mystery and adventure story centering about a man who disappears as if by magic the night before his proposed wedding to a beautiful young heiress. All efforts to find him prove for weeks in vain. Some think him spirited away by ghosts. Elsie, the heiress, is implored by her relatives to marry some one else, for if she does not marry soon, by the conditions of the will, she loses her fortune. But for her there is no one but Webb. Finally after desperate efforts, and dreadful adventures, the mystery is solved at last. Webb is brought back in time to save the fortune, and the “master mind” who has spirited the bridegroom away and kept him basely hid is one least expected.
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“The characters are the mere sketches which pass in most latter-day mystery fiction. The style is slipshod, the dialogue barren, the action forced. Mr Wright has a new idea, cleverly developed in its essential details. With this he stops short.” C. H.
− + =Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 20 ’20 320w
“A somewhat new idea is used as vehicle, showing that modern mystery fiction can be based on a single unsolved point. But the supporting material is inferior, in comparison, and causes the story to prove somewhat disappointing.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a My 16 ’20 220w
=WYATT, EDWIN M.=[2] Blue print reading. il $1 Bruce pub. co. 744
20–16615
“This book is the result of several years teaching of blueprint reading in night schools and several years teaching of drafting preceding it.... Essentially it is a tried text, one that has been used to teach the reading of drawings to one class of mixed trades, one class of ship carpenters, two classes of house carpenters, and one class of machinists. It has been designed to suit as wide a range of trades as possible. Usually each new principle is illustrated by both a machine and an architectural example.” (Preface) The book is illustrated with twenty-nine plates, and questions and problems follow the chapters.
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=Booklist= 17:104 D ’20
“A valuable addition to the library of manual training teachers and craftsmen wishing to be fluently versed in the universal language of mechanical drawing.”
+ =School Arts Magazine= 20:244 D ’20 50w
=WYLD, HENRY CECIL KENNEDY.= History of modern colloquial English. *$8 Dutton 420.9
(Eng ed 20–9723)
“This book may be described, in one way, as a documented history of English pronunciation from Chaucer to the present day; in another, as an attempt to show that, ‘during the last two centuries at least, the modifications which have come about in the spoken language are the result of the influence not primarily of regional, but of class dialects,’ the final result being the ‘public school English’ which is now the normal spoken idiom of the educated classes. In chapter I the author surveys in broad outline the various problems dealt with in minute detail later in the book. Chapter II, dealing with ‘Dialect types in middle English, and their survival in the modern period,’ contains an elaborate phonetic description of the three main contributory dialects. Chapter IV, on ‘From Henry VIII to James I,’ shows us the English language arriving at the self-conscious period. With chapter V, ‘Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,’ we are on modern ground. Chapters VI to IX deal with the phonetic history of the modern language and the origin of inflections. The final chapter, on ‘Colloquial idiom,’ gives us examples of familiar speech from John Shillingford (1447) to Miss Austen; and there are some final sections on the trimmings of speech, such as greetings, epistolary formulas, expletives, compliments, etc.”—Ath
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“Professor Wyld is to be congratulated on the accomplishment of a very valuable, and evidently laborious, piece of work. We would suggest that he should so far consider the intelligent layman as to publish an abridged edition, with a few characteristic examples replacing the ponderous mass of phonetic detail which concludes each chapter, and, above all, that he should add an index.” E. W.
+ − =Ath= p669 My 21 ’20 1350w
“It may be well to indicate what strikes one as its only defect—that he takes the insular attitude not uncommon among British scholars. This caveat once filed, it is only fair to say that Professor Wyld has done very well indeed what was well worth doing.” Brander Matthews
+ − =N Y Times= p7 Ag 29 ’20 2250w
“No matter how familiar the outlines of the story, no one can follow Professor Wyld’s version of it without finding his interest in it quickened and enlarged on every page.” H. M. Ayres
+ − =Review= 3:386 O 27 ’20 1250w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p242 Ap 15 ’20 20w
“Professor Wyld commands a fluent style, but not of the highest order. Of minor errors and slips there is too large a number. To end on a fault-finding note would be to give a false impression of our appreciation of this notable book. We hasten to set down our tribute to the author’s courage and enthusiasm.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p415 Jl 1 ’20 2100w
=WYLIE, IDA ALENA ROSS.= Children of storm (Eng title, Brodie and the deep sea). *$2 (1½c) Lane
20–18388
The story of an unequal marriage. Ursula Seton, daughter of one of England’s wealthiest families, and Adam Brodie, son of an humble grocer, are married as the result of a brief wartime romance. After the war, and Adam’s return, they try to make the necessary adjustments. The first attempt is made in Ursula’s home. Although her family mean to be sympathetic and kind, Adam is independent and sensitive and the experiment fails. A second attempt is tried out in Adam’s humble circumstances. Here the pettiness of everyday drudgery wears upon Ursula until she can stand it no longer. The two seem to have come to a deadlock when a new element enters into their affairs. Ursula’s grandfather, who has confidence in Adam, leaves him the management of the steel industry which has brought the family their wealth. In grappling with the problems which this position brings, Adam grows and develops in mind and soul until Ursula sees again in him the man with whom she had fallen in love.
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“The domestic scenes revealing their difficulties are perhaps the best in the book.”
+ =Ath= p80 Jl 16 ’20 110w
+ =Booklist= 17:162 Ja ’21
“Miss Wylie’s straightforward and felicitous style is an unmixed delight.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 390w
“The author fails signally to answer the question she raises. ‘Children of storm’ contains some dramatic passages and some character-revealing dialogue, but the author cannot be said to meet satisfactorily the artistic demands of her self-imposed, ambitious theme.”
− + =N Y Times= p18 D 5 ’20 560w
“The final reconciliation of husband and wife through the husband’s endeavour to settle labour troubles is, however, not quite convincing. The writer obviously has fine but vague ideals at the back of her mind for the improvement of the life of the workers, but she does not quite succeed in imparting them to the reader.”
+ − =Spec= 124:53 Jl 10 ’20 110w
“In the first chapters Miss Wylie writes with truth and without partisanship, so that you see this struggle from every side, sympathize with every character and feel their inevitable sorrows. It is ... partly perhaps that Miss Wylie was in a hurry to bring her tale out of tragedy to a triumphant conclusion, which makes the end of the book melodrama. It is good melodrama, but by comparison with the first part of the book superficial and theatrical.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p422 Jl 1 ’20 600w
=WYLIE, IDA ALENA ROSS.= Holy fire, and other stories. *$1.75 (2c) Lane
20–8791
Michael Gregorovitch, of the title story, is a Russian priest. He was a man of peace, a non-resistant, he loved and prayed for his enemies and he kept the lamp burning before the altar of the little church—the light of God that had not gone out for two hundred years. The night the village was sacked the women implored him to give the signal from the belfry, to sound the tocsin, for the peasants to break forth from their hiding and kill the invaders. But the priest standing before the holy fire remained firm—although his house was burned, his wife and little grandson killed, he would not countenance killing. When the ruffians entered the church, he did not resent their insults—they put out the holy fire that had burned for two hundred years and the priest escaped to the belfry and gave the signal. The other stories are: Thirst; The bridge across; “Tinker—tailor—”; Colonel Tibbit comes home; “‘Melia, no good”; A gift for St Nicholas; John Prettyman’s fourth dimension; An Episcopal scherzo.
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“Most of them are marked by tense emotion, but frequently there are gleams of humor.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:30 Je 27 ’20 300w
“Miss Wylie’s work is frankly colored with sentiment. She does not ignore the sensibility of the race which was not ashamed to sob over Colonel Newcome and even Little Nell.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:253 S 22 ’20 160w
=WYLLARDE, DOLF.= Temperament: a romance of hero-worship. *$2 (½c) Lane
(Eng ed 20–12952)
Joan Delamere, of English parentage, was born in the tropics and had an exotic temperament. She was a musical genius, imaginative and romantic to a degree. She dreamt dreams and fashioned them in music. While still a child the personality of a certain Lord Oswald Lancaster fired her imagination and became her hero. Chance encounters with him at long intervals kept the fire burning, but not till the hero was sixty and Joan thirty did they come to know and love each other. As a child she had made a vow never to marry and her union with Lord Oswald remained an illicit one. When an older obligation claimed the latter, Joan hid herself from him and the world on her native Seychelles islands where she died a lonely death in giving birth to her son.
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“The book is not quite as compact as the theme demands, and this diffuseness militates a bit against its complete success but in a large measure the theme, in its ample treatment, is developed in a surprisingly interesting manner. The reader will find much to satisfy him in the book by considering Joan as a feat in portraiture.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 Ag 22 ’20 780w
“As usual with this author, we are attracted, half in our own despite, by the sheer cleverness often revealed in dialogue, characterisation and description.”
+ − =Sat R= 130:100 Jl 31 ’20 240w
“Her sentimental adventures are not completely convincing, and Lord Oswald Lancaster is of so commonplace and unattractive a type that the reader will have very little sympathy with Joan Delamere’s obsession.”
− =Spec= 125:216 Ag 14 ’20 50w
“The events of the tale are plausible, and the persons behave quite naturally and credibly. To that extent the book is a skilful and successful piece of fiction. Yet it is very far indeed from being a good novel in any more serious sense than that. The reason is that the persons, though carefully imitated from life, are only lay figures. They are the product not of an act of creative imagination, but of skilled and painstaking manufacture.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p426 Jl 1 ’20 360w
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=YATES, L. B.= Autobiography of a race horse. *$1.75 (3c) Doran
20–10769
A story of horse racing containing considerable inside information on racing methods, comparisons of English and American systems of training and riding, and something of the history of racing in America. Like the ugly duckling, the horse who is made the narrator of the story shows little promise in early youth, but the young master who buys the colt at auction for a paltry thirty dollars is justified in his judgment. He tells of his training, his stable companions and his first races, adding also an account of a race into the Cherokee Strip at the time it was opened for settlement.
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“An extremely entertaining romance, filled with authentic gossip of past eras on the American track. The story has many thrilling moments that are lightened by a deft humorous touch that makes the book pleasing to read.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:320 Je 20 ’20 450w
=YATES, RAYMOND FRANCIS.= Boys’ book of model boats. il *$2 Century 623.8
20–17511
This book for boys has chapters on: Why a boat floats; The hull; How to make simple boats, with and without power drive; Steam and electric propulsion; An electric launch; A steam launch; An electrically driven lake freighter; An electric submarine-chaser; Boat fittings; The design of model steam-engines; A model floating dry-dock; Operation of flash steam power plants for model boats; Sailing yachts; Two-foot sailing yacht. There are seven full-page illustrations and 166 figures in the text. A dictionary of marine terms is given in an appendix.
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=Booklist= 17:79 N ’20
“Would require a good deal of material and of manual dexterity.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 12 ’20 40w
=YEATS-BROWN, FRANCIS CHARLES CLAYPON.= Caught by the Turks. il *$2 (4c) Macmillan 940.47
20–997
In his preface to the story Owen Wister assures the reader that the tale is true. This is well for it is as strange as fiction. A young soldier in an aeroplane was captured with his pilot by the Turks near Baghdad. He is a prisoner of war for nearly three years; escapes, is recaptured and escapes again. He adopts various disguises, once as a woman, once as a Hungarian mechanic, and his adventures and experiences are altogether unusual and romantic. Life in a Turkish prison camp is likewise very different from the prison camp of the western front.
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+ =Booklist= 16:239 Ap ’20
“A war book that is readable on every page.”
+ =Outlook= 124:337 F 25 ’20 40w
“The narrative is lively and humorous, and the author writes an easy style. We ought to know more about the Turk’s character and habits than we do: and the book before us will help our education and stimulate our interest in the Ottoman barbarian.”
+ =Sat R= 128:614 D 27 ’19 260w
“The author tells the story in a straightforward conversational manner. Humor is not the least of his characteristics, and he shows ability to distinguish between the important and the nonessential.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a My 2 ’20 300w
“A vividly told tale.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p698 N 27 ’19 30w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p707 D 4 ’19 440w
=YERKES, ROBERT MEARNS=, ed. New world of science, il *$3 Century 509
20–18328
The book is one of the Century New world series and its object is to show the impetus given to research in the various branches of science by the war. The various chapters are written by specialists in the subjects under discussion and the contents fall into groups according to the role in the war of each science. The contributors to the respective groups are: Physical science, Robert A. Millikan, Augustus Trowbridge, Herbert E. Ives; Chemistry, Arthur A. Noyes, Charles E. Munroe, Clarence J. West; The earth sciences (geography and geology), Douglas W. Johnson; Engineering, A. D. Kennelly, Henry M. Howe; Biology and medicine, Vernon Kellogg, Frederick F. Russell, John W. Hanner, Victor C. Vaughan; Psychology, Robert M. Yerkes. The relations of the war to progress in science is treated by George Ellery Hale and James R. Angell. The book is illustrated and indexed.
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=Booklist= 17:144 Ja ’21
“It is excellently illustrated; a record of great value and interest.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p7 O 23 ’20 270w
=YEZIERSKA, ANZIA, pseud.= Hungry hearts. *$1.90 (3c) Houghton
20–18936
The Russian immigrant in the ghetto, reaching out with hungry heart to higher things, is the subject of this collection of sketches. There is something fierce and savage and to our sober self-control almost unreasonable in this cry for beauty, life and freedom that rings from the heart of this oppressed race in the voice of one of their number. The sketches are: Wings; Hunger; The lost “beautifulness”; The free vacation house; The miracle; Where lovers dream; Soap and water; “The fat of the land”; My own people; How I found America.
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“Very intense, with a touch of sadness or bitterness here and there, but vivid and appealing.”
+ =Booklist= 17:162 Ja ’21
+ =Bookm= 52:551 F ’21 120w
“The characters in these ten stories of imaginative squalor are truly conceived as portraits, but their speech is too often falsely poetic, Miss Yezierska has a firm command over her subject-matter; when she restrains herself she is artistic.” E. P.
+ − =Dial= 70:106 Ja ’21 60w
“It is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant books produced by an adopted American.” E. A. S.
+ =Grinnell R= 16:310 D ’20 150w
“When she leaves the East side neighborhood to which her art is native she never quite has the look of reality. And yet she has struck one or two notes that our literature can never again be without, and she deserves the high credit of being one of the earliest to put those notes into engaging fiction.” C. V. D.
+ − =Nation= 112:122 Ja 26 ’21 230w
“When one considers her own struggles to become an American her detachment strikes one as little short of miraculous.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 20 ’20 190w
“Many realistic tales of New York’s ghetto have been written; but in point of literary workmanship and in laying bare the very souls of her characters, the superior of Miss Yezierska has not yet appeared.”
+ =N Y Times= p18 D 5 ’20 280w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 23 ’21 220w
“Quite in addition to fulfilling her purpose of making her far-from-mute race even more articulate, Mrs Yezierska has succeeded in making some very readable stories. They are not only Jewish; they are human.” M. C. C.
+ =Survey= 45:579 Ja 15 ’21 190w
=YOAKUM, CLARENCE STONE, and YERKES, ROBERT MEARNS=, eds. Army mental tests. il *$1.50 Holt 136
20–6757
“The purposes of psychological testing are (a) to aid in segregating the mentally incompetent, (b) to classify men according to their mental capacity, (c) to assist in selecting competent men for responsible positions.” (Introd.) Although the results given in the present volume are based almost entirely on military needs and indicate the success of this service in the army, it has been prepared in the hope that it may suggest possible uses of similar methods in education and industry. Contents: Making the tests; Methods and results; The examiner’s guide for psychological examining in the army—Directions for giving the army mental tests; Army tests in the Students’ army training corps and colleges; Practical applications; Army test record blanks and forms.
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“Suggestive to an instructor or employment manager, as it gives a practical illustration of what might be done with these tests in a commercial way.”
+ =Booklist= 17:93 D ’20
Reviewed by P. S. Florence
=Freeman= 1:477 Jl 28 ’20 250w
Reviewed by F. L. Wells
+ =J Philos= 17:304 My 20 ’20 550w
“If the American army was not actually as wonderful as the peruser of these tests might suppose, we must realize that, as far as the theory of mental tests is concerned, an exceedingly valuable piece of work was nevertheless performed. They appear, as far as the reader can judge, to have vindicated themselves completely.”
+ =Spec= 125:673 N 20 ’20 180w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p670 O 14 ’20 110w
=YORK, THOMAS A.= Foreign exchange; theory and practice. $2.50 Ronald 332.4
20–3331
“The author’s purpose is to explain the operation of the exchanges between gold standard countries under normal financial conditions. In the introductory chapters he discusses the meaning of the gold standard, or what constitutes money in a gold standard country. A hypothetical method of treatment is proposed in the theoretical part of the discussion. In the last few chapters the hypothetical assumptions are abolished and attention is given to practical foreign exchange operations as conducted in the New York market.”—Am Econ R
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=Am Econ R= 10:848 D ’20 80w
=N Y Times= 25:225 My 2 ’20 210w
=YOUNG, FLORENCE ETHEL MILLS.= Almonds of life. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–23027
When Fred Wootten marries a beautiful young wife and brings her home to South Africa he surprises all his friends, not least of them George and Maud Allerton. Mrs Allerton welcomes the bride and does all in her power to make her happy in her new home. But neither she nor the hapless husband is aware of the sudden passion that awakens between George Allerton and Gerda Wootten and up to the moment of flight both are unaware of what is impending. George and Gerda go to England. Wootten is willing to set his wife free but for the sake of her children Maud refuses to consider divorce. Eventually Gerda comes to feel the guilt of her action and sends George from her. The title is taken from a Chinese proverb, “Almonds come to those who have no teeth.”
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“The book is smoothly written, but it has no especial charm of style, nor any particular quality either of discernment or of drama to freshen its more than well-worn plot. The proofreading is strikingly careless.”
+ − =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 150w
=Spec= 124:729 My 29 ’20 30w
“She has given George Allerton’s wife sterling qualities and then wasted them all. The author, in fact, has taken throughout the book a low view of love, and love has spread his wings and flown away. We have seldom found so little love in a book which contained so much talk of it. Being what it is, however, it is a well-told story.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p271 Ap 29 ’20 470w
=YOUNG, FRANCIS BRETT.= Poems, 1916–1918. *$2 Dutton 821
20–9079
“This book contains poems which appeared in Mr Brett Young’s first volume of verse, ‘Five degrees south.’ But there is a large number of new poems.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup p718 D 4 ’19) “Mr Brett Young’s finer poems are of two kinds—reverie and fantasy. Both are in the nature of dreams; the one a brooding on love or beauty, a scene, a memory; the other on adventure, heathenish maybe, and magical, of the imagination.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup p779 D 25 ’19)
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“His ardent appreciation of the richer, more obvious kinds of beauty makes him a remarkably picturesque writer. He possesses, in modernized form, a great measure of the talent of that much neglected writer, Thomas Moore.” A. L. H.
+ =Ath= p1335 D 12 ’19 240w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 440w
=Dial= 69:434 O ’20 60w
“The difficulty is that Mr Young has not made his verse the true instrument of his experiences. He writes about them, rather than records them. And the way in which he writes about them is by echoing other poets.” J: G. Fletcher
− + =Freeman= 2:189 N 3 ’20 320w
“Young has already made an enviable reputation as a prose writer, but it is quite safe to assert that his poetry immediately gives him a much higher place in English letters than he has occupied heretofore. There is not a mediocre poem, not a verse without its modicum of aesthetic satisfaction and impressionistic suggestion for the reader. The reviewer can but advise lovers of poetry to secure it as soon as possible.” H. S. Gorman
+ =N Y Times= 25:18 Jl 25 ’20 900w
“Mr Francis Brett Young tries experiments in metres that are more crafty than wise. He is prone also to that kind of verse in which things well said and things not nearly so well said are set forth in undiscriminating proximity.” O. W. Firkins
+ − =Review= 3:171 Ag 25 ’20 100w
“Mr Brett Young has a distinguished, ardent, and promising muse.”
+ =Spec= 122:177 F 7 ’20 400w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p718 D 4 ’19 30w
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p779 D 25 ’19 900w
=YOUNG, FRANCIS BRETT.= Young physician. *$2.50 Dutton
20–8520
“This story proceeds by definite stages. First of all we have the boy in the English public school. We find him suffering keenly from the roughness and cruelty of public school life. His own escape from this torment is in his dreams. He confides these dreams to his mother and she responds with an understanding which tightened the bond between them. After his mother has died, Edwin’s father has a period of poignant self-revelation. He takes Edwin on a bicycle trip to the country where his boyhood was spent. His father uses rather undue influence in persuading him to give up his chosen career in order to study medicine. It is easy to understand that the father longs to see his own personal ambitions fulfilled in the boy, but after the first Edwin himself becomes interested in the work. We see him in the medical school, in the dissecting room. When he discovers late in his medical school course that his father is planning to marry again, Edwin is forced to leave home by an interior urge too strong to be overborne. It is their definite point of cleavage.”—Boston Transcript
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“Readable, yes, eminently readable—readable to a fault. If only Mr Young could forget the impatient public and let himself be carried away into places where he thinks they do not care to follow!” K. M.
+ − =Ath= p1067 O 24 ’19 1100w
“Mr Young has given us a genuine achievement, one with real revelation for every reader who likes to experience contact with the deeper currents of individual life. Edwin Ingleby should, if this book has the fate it deserves, become one of the characters with whom acquaintance is considered a prerequisite of good taste in fiction.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 3 ’20 1250w
=Dial= 69:546 N ’20 50w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:131 Ag 11 ’20 460w
“The book is an interesting, if somewhat morbid, study of life, as seen by a youth in the egotistic years between boyhood and manhood. The main theme is the hero himself—to the detriment of several deserving minor characters.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:469 N 15 ’19 450w
“But for the episode of Rosie Beaucaire and one more rather tiresome and trivial incident Mr Brett Young would have succeeded in producing a long and interesting work of fiction in which the relations of sex played no part whatever.”
+ − =Spec= 123:774 D 6 ’19 200w
“Perhaps the most striking thing about the book is the ease with which Mr Young blends poetry and realism—out of some such blend as this the great novels of the next few decades must be written. Probably Mr Young has not attained his finest balance yet. He seems to have the power of using the modern spirit to classical ends.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 8 ’20 700w
“If more novelists wrote as well as Mr Brett Young, whose style is attractively clear and simple, the world would be a happier place; but manner is not everything, and the matter of Edwin Ingleby’s life is comparatively wanting in dramatic interest. We wish the author could convey to his imagination the very obvious zest which moves his pen.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p531 O 2 ’19 550w
=YOUNG, FRANCIS BRETT, and YOUNG, E. BRETT.= Undergrowth. *$2 Dutton
20–19050
“The story which it tells is the story of a conflict between modern men and the ancient pagan forces, the ‘old gods’ who from prehistoric times have dominated the lonely Welsh valley in which the action is laid. This conflict manifests itself at once physically and spiritually. Physically, in the endless series of accidents which befall those engaged in building the great dam that is to restrain the waters of the Dulas; spiritually, in their effect upon the characters and souls of Forsyth, the young engineer with whose coming to take charge of the work on the dam the book begins, and his predecessor, Carlyon, the dead man whose diary and whose influence form important parts of the narrative.”—N Y Times
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“As a short story, it would be a decided success, as a long one it is overelaborated.” C. K. H.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 N 17 ’20 370w
“‘Undergrowth’ is a novel of atmosphere. Characters and incidents alike are of value to Mr Young only as they can help to make more vivid the picture he is painting of the rugged, fear-inspiring mountains of South Wales.” D. L. M.
+ =Freeman= 2:165 O 27 ’20 150w
“We wonder whether lack of conciseness, rather than any lack in imagination or expression, is not the great rift in this book. And at the last the imagination slips the noose. The book becomes hysterical.”
+ − =N Y Evening Post= p19 O 23 ’20 460w
“The book is interesting, dramatic at times, and full of a strange, compelling beauty.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 D 5 ’20 740w
=YOUNG, GEOFFREY WINTHROP=, ed.[2] Mountain craft. il *$7.50 Scribner 796
“This book comprises 609 pages in all; about 394 pages are occupied by Mr Young in person in a discussion of what he justly calls ‘Mountain craft.’ Of the remainder, sixty-three are occupied by Mr Arnold Lunn with a section on Mountaineering on ski, which leaves 162 pages for eleven other contributors and the index.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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+ =Boston Transcript= p3 D 4 ’20 280w
“In the result the book is disproportioned and ill-arranged; it affords some compensations. Mr Lunn’s article is a very valuable treatise on a subject which deserves more attention. Captain Farrar finds it possible in a small space to say all that is necessary about equipment and outfit, writing, as he always does, with complete mastery of detail and admirable conciseness. Mr Spenser on photography is helpful and adequate.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p754 N 18 ’20 2300w
=YOUNG, GEORGE.= New Germany. *$2.25 (4c) Harcourt 943
(Eng ed 20–4808)
There is a note of optimism for Germany in this book—the Germany that has learned “to lift up its eyes to the hills” in all its misery—and a grave note of warning for the Entente. “The mistake we are all making about Germany ... is that we can’t realize what Germany today is like.... Germany has given up. It carried on until it collapsed, and now lies semi-comatose; and we, still absorbed in our quarrel, keep pestering it with solicitors and foreclosures instead of patching it up with doctors and food.” The author is, since the armistice, a special correspondent of the London Daily News in Germany. Contents: The revolution; The reaction; The council republics; Ruin and reconstruction; Council government; The treaty of Versailles; The constitution. The appendix contains a copy of the constitution with notes, and there is an index.
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=Am Pol Sci R= 14:729 N ’20 180w
+ =Ath= p633 My 14 ’20 1050w
“This able analysis of a complicated situation makes good supplementary reading to Keynes.”
+ =Booklist= 16:341 Jl ’20
“Admirable little book.” H: W. Nevinson
+ =Freeman= 1:404 Jl 7 ’20 1000w
=Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 50w
“On the whole, although necessarily impressionistic and journalistic in character, the work is an intelligent account of the political transformations in Germany since the armistice, lively and readable at all times, penetrating and brilliant in places.”
+ =Nation= 111:77 Jl 17 ’20 280w
“Mr Young, it must be added, is a companionable guide to this unknown land. He saw Germany in the fever of revolution, when to see it was an adventure, and we doubt whether any observer who was there, German or foreigner, saw half so much. He came to his work, moreover, with a background of intimate knowledge of the old Germany. On the folly of the peace treaty he writes with knowledge and with passion. Mr Keynes from the outside has traced its economic effects. Mr Young from within has sketched its no less tragic psychical results.”
+ =Nation [London]= 26:816 Mr 13 ’20 1700w
“It is an expert view Young presents.” A. J.
+ =New Repub= 23:129 Je 23 ’20 1200w
“Mr Young’s interpretation is liberal and fairminded.” A. C. Freeman
+ =N Y Call= p10 Jl 18 ’20 800w
+ =N Y Times= 25:10 Jl 18 ’20 280w
“‘The new Germany’ is not a profound book and it is frequently marred by bad writing, but it is one of the best accounts of political and economic events in Germany since the armistice.”
+ − =Review= 3:194 S 1 ’20 200w
=R of Rs= 61:670 Je ’20 40w
− =Spec= 124:394 Mr 20 ’20 280w
“The writer has first hand knowledge of German political and economic conditions, and sound intelligence and an understanding of political theory illuminate his judgments.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 14 ’20 400w
“Mr Young has, as all who know his other writings would anticipate, produced a book which is not only interesting and at times amusing and clever, but also parts of which deserve serious consideration by students of contemporary politics. Clever, perhaps too clever; for some there will be too much of the cheap jest and the facile alliteration. Mr Young has certainly done more than any other writer to help us in understanding what happened.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p131 F 26 ’20 1400w
“Despite a journalistic fondness for euphuistic phrases in their extreme form, Mr Young holds the reader’s attention. Of real value are the final chapters on the new German constitution, and the appendix, which contains the text of the constitution with illuminating annotations.” C: Seymour
+ =Yale R= n s 10:420 Ja ’21 360w
=YOUNG, P. N. F., and FERRERS, AGNES.=[2] India in conflict. *$1.40 Macmillan 266
“This ambitious title covers a manual for missionary workers in India. But the authors—representatives of the Anglican church—know that India is more interesting than missions, and it is of India that they write. In a hundred and fifty pages they give the reader a clear impression of the ignorance and poverty met in the teeming native villages, and of the obstacles to true missionary work springing from the fact that even if the ill-paid missionary lives in the poorest, barest cabin, he seems a marvel of wealth to most natives. They define the great needs of rural India as, first, medical aid, and second, schools of a Montessori type.”—N Y Evening Post
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=N Y Evening Post= p11 D 31 ’20 110w
“An instructive study of Indian conditions.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p443 Jl 8 ’20 100w
=YOUNG, W. A.= Silver and Sheffield plate collector. (Collector’s ser.) il *$2.50 Dodd 739
(Eng ed 20–26554)
“A guide to English domestic metal work in old silver and old Sheffield plate.” (Sub-title) In view of the considerable literature already gathered around the above subject the author avers that no previous writer has surveyed the field solely from the standpoint of domestic requirements and that “the present volume seeks to furnish something about any and every class of article made of silver or Sheffield plate that was made between the years 1697 and 1840, provided it was of such sort as might have had a place in the homes, or about the persons of the well-to-do and middle classes.” (Introd.) Contents: Some history and a little law; Some sources of information; Marks on old metal wares; The craft of the silversmith and the plater; Six chapters on “The quest” for the various kinds of utensils; Bibliography; A glossary of terms used in connection with the silversmiths’ craft and the plater’s trade; Appendix; Index and over one hundred illustrations.
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“Mr Young’s introduction is valuable and interesting, as is his first chapter. The illustrations are well chosen and excellently reproduced.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:86 Ja 24 ’20 600w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p716 D 4 ’19 100w
=YOUNGHUSBAND, SIR GEORGE JOHN.=[2] Jewel house. il $5 Doran 739
A work by the Keeper of the jewel house in the Tower of London. “Some of the most interesting chapters in the book are those devoted to the description of the chief pieces of the regalia and to the history of the more famous gems. There is a full account of the sovereign’s three crowns—Edward the Confessor’s crown, the Imperial state crown, and the Imperial crown of India—of the Queen’s crowns, the Prince of Wales’s crown as eldest son of the king, and the different sceptres and orbs. The Koh-i-nur is, of course, one of the historic jewels dealt with by Sir George in a special chapter. Another gem with a story is the Black Prince’s ruby, presented to him after the battle of Najera by his ally Don Pedro of Castille.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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+ =N Y Times= p10 D 19 ’20 2000w
Reviewed by E. L. Pearson
=Review= 3:619 D 22 ’20 680w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p696 O 28 ’20 1300w
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=ZAMACOÏS, EDUARDO.= Their son; The necklace. (Penguin ser.) *$1.25 (3½c) Boni & Liveright
19–18640
Two stories translated from the Spanish by George Allan England. In the first, an honest, faithful, industrious locomotive engineer marries a young girl of provocative beauty. In his zeal to get on, and to provide properly for her in case he should suddenly die, he insists on their taking as boarder a friend of his who is fond of “wine, women, and song.” Not until three years pass does he learn that his friend has been too intimate with his wife; and although he knows it must cost him his home, his delight in his wife and his gay little son, he kills his deceiving friend in a duel. After twenty years in prison he returns to a wife hardened and made ugly by work, and a dissolute son. He is happy again, prosperity comes; but another duel occurs through no fault of his, in which he is killed by the son who is not his son. The second is a passionate story of the power of a courtesan over a young student from the country. The translator contributes an appreciative estimate of the author.
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“‘Their son’ is a novelette of a very high order of merit. The action is rapid, the pathos bare and virile, the observation of circumstance exact. ‘The necklace’ is more hectic in atmosphere and the theft of the jewels is somewhat wildly conceived.” L. L.
+ − =Nation= 110:sup488 Ap 10 ’20 150w
“The themes of both of the novelettes are antique, but the style is direct, simple and vigorous. Here is a book worth reading.” A. W. Welch
+ − =N Y Call= p11 Mr 21 ’20 280w
“We predict for Señor Zamacois a high appreciation among American readers.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:39 Ja 25 ’20 750w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:111 Ja 31 ’20 150w
“This author has been compared to both Balzac and Maupassant; but it seems to us that his nearest double in French fiction would be Anatole France, with whom he has in common a fine irony which directs the thought of the reader to fundamental ills in present-day social relationships.”
+ =Survey= 44:352 Je 5 ’20 200w
=ZANELLA, NORA.= By the waters of Fiume. *$1.35 (*3s 6d) Longmans 940.3436
20–4795
“This little book purports to have been written by an English girl who married a young Italian of Fiume just before the war. The husband had to serve as a conscript in the Austrian army, and was shot for refusing to fire on the Italians. The wife survived him only a few months. Whether or not the story is true it represents faithfully enough the Italian sentiments of the majority of the people of Fiume and their sufferings during a war in which all their sympathies were with the Allies and against their Austrian and Croatian oppressors.” (Spec) The facts of the author’s life are told by her sister, Madame de Lucchi, in an introduction.
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“You can tell what Fiume is like by reading the early pages of this book.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 260w
=Spec= 123:446 O 4 ’19 100w
“It is a moving record of love, expressed with great exuberance.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p534 O 2 ’19 70w
=ZILBOORG, GREGORY.= Passing of the old order in Europe. *$2.50 (4c) Seltzer 940.5
The author has lived through the war as an observer and is not writing an academic treatise or a book based on authorities but claims merely to be analysing his own experiences. It is his conviction that “in the course of the struggles of the present-day world, humanity has developed a very serious disease.... The disease is mob psychosis. The contagion was carried by the war, by revolution, by political lying, by diplomatic betrayal, social disturbances and moral suppression.” (Introd.) The book concerns itself with the diagnosis of the disease and the possibilities of restoring health. Contents: The impasse of politics; The debauch of European thought; The morass of war; The recovery of revolution; Revolutionary contradictions; Additional contemplations; Light and shadows; Consequences and possibilities.
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=Boston Transcript= p1 N 27 ’20 420w
=R of Rs= 62:558 D ’20 120w
“It is an important contribution, full of apposite citation from an unusually wide range of knowledge and personal experience of penetrating criticism and suggestive generalization. This message just now deserves a wide hearing.” B. L.
+ =Survey= 45:320 N 27 ’20 560w
=ZIMMERN, HELEN, and AGRESTI, ANTONIO.= New Italy. *$2 (3c) Harcourt 914.5
(Eng ed 19–264)
The authors say in the foreword that Italy’s glorious past stands in the way of comprehension of her present, that she is still for the average Englishman and American the land of the renaissance and the Risorgimento, or the country of the picturesque brigand and lazzarone, while in fact the modern Italian is not a romanticist but a positivist, not an excitable, emotional individual but a reflective one. The great change that has come over the people, especially during the last twenty years, has surprised even the nation itself into knowing itself for the first time. The endeavor of the book is to give a short, synthetic view of Italy as she was at the outbreak of the war, as she is today and as she is likely to be after the conclusion of peace, for Italy’s entrance into the war marks the end of the book. The three main divisions of the contents are politics, civil questions, and Italy and the great war. There is an index.
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=Ind= 104:67 O 9 ’20 50w
“They know and love the old Italy, and they have packed much valuable information into their book, despite haphazard statistics and recurrent bellicose homilies on the war. There is need of an authoritative book on new Italy; this is not it.”
+ − =Nation= 111:161 Ag 7 ’20 220w
“The book provides a certain amount of guidebook information about Italian history, education, industry, etc. But, as an interpretation of ‘New Italy,’ it is a total failure.” A. C. Freeman
− + =N Y Call= p11 Ag 1 ’20 580w
“The volume as a whole is thoroughly satisfactory, and our only regret is that its brief compass does not permit a fuller development of the subjects with which it deals.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:14 Je 27 ’20 700w
+ =Outlook= 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 80w
“Miss Helen Zimmern and Signor Agresti have tried to explain modern Italy to English readers, and their survey is both compact and intelligent. The writers have not quite got to the root of Italy’s discontents.”
+ − =Sat R= 125:848 S 14 ’18 1050w
=Spec= 121:231 Ag 31 ’18 1400w
“So far as it goes it gives a clear outline of the progress of Italy. But her present developments are among the most interesting in all Europe, and this book, ending the survey where it does, hardly prepares us to understand them.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 S 23 ’20 280w
“She has written numerous books on Italy, and she has written better ones, not a little better.” F. O. Beck
+ − =Survey= 45:73 O 9 ’20 370w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p383 Ag 15 ’18 110w
=ZOOK, GEORGE FREDERICK.= Company of royal adventurers trading into Africa. $1.10 Journal of negro history, 1216 You st., N.W., Washington, D.C. 382
20–4623
This monograph is reprinted from the Journal of negro history, (April, 1919) and is a contribution to the history of the slave trade. The time period covered is 1660–1672. Contents: Early Dutch and English trade to West Africa; The royal adventurers in England; On the west coast of Africa; The royal adventurers and the plantations; Bibliography; Index. The author is professor of modern European history in Pennsylvania state college.
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“On the whole Dr Zook has presented a clear and straightforward account of the company’s activities and relationships.”
+ − =Am Hist R= 25:541 Ap ’20 550w
+ − =J Pol Econ= 28:523 Je ’20 400w
=ZWEMER, SAMUEL MARINUS.= Influence of animism on Islam; an account of popular superstitions. il *$2 Macmillan 297
20–8879
The object of the book is to show how animism, the superstitious belief in spirits, witches and demons, on which all pagan religions are founded, still controls Islam in its popular manifestations. Mohammedanism, as an outgrowth of paganism, Judaism and Christianity, is characterized as a religion of compromise, that has easily yielded to the pagan survivals in the countries over which it has spread its influence. That these superstitions are popular expressions that have nothing to do with the monotheism of Islam, does not make them less pernicious. The contents are: Islam and animism; Animism in the creed and the use of the rosary; Animistic elements in Moslem prayer; Hair, finger-nails and the hand; The ‘Aqiqa’ sacrifice; The familiar spirit or Qarina; Jinn; Pagan practices in connection with the pilgrimage; Magic and sorcery; Amulets, charms and knots; Tree, stone and serpent worship; The Zar: exorcism of demons. There are illustrations and a bibliography.
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+ =Booklist= 17:139 Ja ’21
=Lit D= p102 S 4 ’20 1600w
=N Y Times= 25:17 Jl 4 ’20 1000w
“His book is well worth reading.”
+ =Spec= 124:54 Jl 10 ’20 160w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p407 Je 24 ’20 120w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p723 N 4 ’20 150w
Footnote 2:
This book is mentioned for the first time in this issue.
List of Documents for Use in the Smaller Libraries
Compiled by MARY E. FURBECK, Economics Division, New York Public Library
Accidents
Accidents and accident prevention in machine building. Lucian W. Chaney. (U.S. Labor statistics bureau. Bul. 256) 123p pa ’20
Industrial accidents and their prevention. Ralph R. Ray. (U.S. Federal board for vocational education. Bul. 47) 66p pa ’19
Advertising
Advertising methods in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. J. W. Sanger. (U.S. Foreign & domestic commerce bureau. Special agents series 190) 119p pa ’20
Agricultural census
Number of farms, by states and counties: 1920, 1910 and 1900. (U.S. Census bur.) 29p pa ’20
Agricultural cooperation
Farmers’ cooperative gins in Texas. H. M. Eliot. (Texas. Agricultural experiment station. Special circular) 23p pa ’20 Agricultural experiment station, College station, Brazos county, Texas
Fundamental principles of cooperation in agriculture. G. Harold Powell. (California. Agricultural experiment station. Circular 222) 24p pa ’20 University of California, Berkeley, Cal.
Agricultural education
Development of agricultural instruction in secondary schools. H. P. Barrows. (U.S. Education bur. Bul. 1919, no. 85) 108p pa ’20
Lessons in animal production for southern schools. E. H. Shinn. (U.S. Federal board for vocational education. Bul. 56) 136p pa ’20
Agricultural extension
Cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics, 1918. (U.S. States relations service) 157p pa ’19
Bibliography
Books for a farmer’s library. L. O. Lantis. (Ohio. State university. Agricultural extension service. Bul. v. 15 no. 20) 32p pa ’20 Ohio state university, Columbus, Ohio
Agriculture
Status and results; county agent work: northern and western states. W. A. Lloyd. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department circular 106) 19p pa ’20
American expeditionary forces
Final report of Gen. John J. Pershing, commander in chief, American expeditionary forces. (U.S. War dept.) 95p 16 folded maps pa ’19
Americanization
Community Americanization; a handbook for workers. Fred Clayton Butler. (U.S. Education bureau. Bul. 1919, no. 76) 82p pa ’20
State Americanization; the part of the state in the education and assimilation of the immigrant. Fred Clayton Butler. (U.S. Education bureau. Bul. 1919, no. 77) 26p pa ’20
Training teachers for Americanization; a course of study for normal schools and teachers’ institutes, by John J. Mahoney; with a chapter on Industrial classes, by Frances K. Wetmore, and on Home and neighborhood classes, by Helen Winkler and Elsa Alsberg. (U.S. Education bur. Bul. 1920, no. 12) 62p pa ’20
Animal breeding
Essentials of animal breeding. George M. Rommel. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1167) 38p pa ’20
Apple powdery mildew
Control of apple powdery mildew. D. F. Fisher. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1120) 14p pa ’20
Apples
Common insects and diseases of the apple. W. W. Chase. (Georgia. State board of entomology. Bul. 54) 51p pa ’19 Atlanta, Ga.
Argentina
Economic position of Argentina during the war. L. Brewster Smith, Harry T. Collins, Elizabeth Murphey. (U.S. Foreign & domestic commerce bureau. Miscellaneous series, 98) 140p pa ’20
Automobile repair
Course of study for automobile maintenance and repair. (New Mexico. State board for vocational education. Bul. no. 3) 43p pa ’19 Santa Fé, N. Mex.
Baking
Baking in the home. Hannah L. Wessling. (U. S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1136) 40p pa ’20
Beef production
Growing beef on the farm. F. W. Farley. (U.S. Agric. dept. Farmers’ bul. 1073) 23p pa ’19
Bees
Beekeeping for beginners. H. B. Parks. (Texas. Agricultural experiment station Bulletin 255) 25p pa ’19 College Station, Brazos county, Texas
Botany
Directions for collecting flowering plants and ferns. S. F. Blake. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department circular 76) 8p pa ’20
Bovine tuberculosis
The problem of tuberculosis in cattle. Veranus A. Moore. (New York State. College of agriculture. Cornell reading course for the farm. Lesson 146) 12p pa ’19 Ithaca, N.Y.
Boys’ and girls’ clubs
Bean club demonstrations. R. G. Foster. (New Mexico. Agricultural extension service. Extension circular 63) 14p pa ’20 New Mexico college of agriculture and mechanic arts, State college, New Mexico
Brazil
Brazil, a study of economic conditions since 1913. Arthur H. Redfield and Helen Watkins. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bureau. Miscellaneous ser. 86) 99p pa ’20
Brest-Litovsk
Proceedings of the Brest-Litovsk peace conference: the peace negotiations between Russia and the Central powers. November 21, 1917–March 3, 1918. (U.S. State dept.) 187p pa ’18
Canning
Home canning and food thrift. O. H. Benson. (New York [State] Farms and markets dept. Agricultural bul. 130) 61p pa ’20 Albany, N.Y.
Cattle
Breeds of dairy cattle. H. P. Davis. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 893) 35p pa ’20
Cheese industry
Trend of the cheese industry in the United States and other countries, simple charts with interpretations. T. R. Pirtle. (U.S. Agric. dept. Department circular 71) 24p pa ’19
Chelan national forest
The land of beautiful water. (U. S. Agriculture dept. Department circular 91) 16p pa ’20
Child-labor
Industrial instability of child workers; a study of employment certificate records in Connecticut. Robert Morse Woodbury. (U.S. Children’s bur. Publication 74) 86p pa ’20
Children
Care and hygiene
Child-welfare programs; study outlines for the use of clubs and classes. (U.S. Children’s bur. Bur. pub. no. 73) 35p pa ’20
Child-welfare special; a suggested method of reaching rural communities. (U.S. Children’s bur. Bur. pub. no. 69) 18p pa ’20
Eyesight of school children; defective vision as related to school environment, and methods of prevention and correction. J. H. Berkowitz. (U.S. Education bur. Bul. 1919, no. 65) 128p pa ’20
Instructions for the use of child hygiene survey cards. (U.S. Public health service. Miscellaneous pub. 23) 30p pa ’20
Joy and health through play; the new age-grade-height-weight athletic standard. George E. Schlafer. (U. S. Education bur.) 19p pa ’20
China
Commercial handbook of China. Julean Arnold. v 1. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bureau. Miscellaneous ser. 84) 630p 2 maps pa ’19
Commercial handbook of China. Julean Arnold. v 2. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bureau. Miscellaneous ser. 84) 470p pa ’20
Cities—U.S.
Population of cities having 25,000 inhabitants or more, 1920, 1910 and 1900. (U.S. Census bur. 14th census) 8p pa ’20
Citizenship
Civics and patriotism: syllabus for elementary schools. University of the State of New York. Bul. 704) 91p pa ’20 State library, Albany, N.Y.
Civic training through service. A. W. Dunn. (U.S. Education bur. Teachers’ leaflet no. 8) 13p pa ’20
Lessons in civics for the six elementary grades of city schools. Hannah Margaret Harris. (U.S. Education bur. Bul. 1920, no. 18) 110p pa ’20
Visualizing citizenship. Ina Clement. (New York city. Municipal reference library. Special report no. 4) 32p pa ’20 15c Municipal reference library, New York city
Citrus industry
Citrus—fruit growing in the gulf states. E. D. Vosbury. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1122) 46p pa ’20
Clearing of land
TNT as a blasting explosive. Charles E. Munroe & Spencer P. Howell. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department circular 94) 24p pa ’20
Clothing
Selection and care of clothing. Laura I. Baldt. (U.S. Agric. dept. Farmers’ bul. 1089) 32p pa ’20
Coal
Safe storage of coal. H. H. Stock. (U.S. Mines bur. Technical paper 225) 10p pa ’20
Coal-mine gases
Coal-mine gases. (U.S. Federal board for vocational education. Bul. 39) 35p pa ’20
Coal mines
Award and recommendations of the United States bituminous coal commission accepted by the President, 1920. U.S. Bituminous coal comm. 120p pa ’20
Comfort stations
Wisconsin public comfort station code and rest room suggestions. (Wisconsin. State board of health) 62p pa ’20 Madison, Wis.
Commerce
Trade of the United States with the world, 1918–1919. Part 1—Imports. (U.S. Bur. of foreign and domestic commerce. Miscellaneous ser. 106) 103p pa ’20
Commercial organizations
Commercial and industrial organizations of the United States; rev. to Nov. 1, 1919. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bureau. Miscellaneous ser. 99) 121p pa ’20
Community buildings
Rural community buildings in the United States. W. C. Nason, and C. W. Thompson. (U.S. Agric. dept. Farmer’s bul. 825) 36p pa ’20
Community centers
The community center: list of lantern slides with notes on the community schoolhouse. Walton S. Bittner. (Indiana university. Extension division. Bul. v. 5, no. 8) 30p pa ’20 Extension division, Indiana university, Bloomington, Ind.
Constitutions
Constitutions of the state at war, 1914–1918; ed. by Herbert F. Wright. (U.S. State dept.) 679p pa ’19
Continuation schools
Compulsory continuation schools; a circular of information on the Boston compulsory continuation school. (Mass. Education department. Bul. 1920, no. 2) 185p pa ’20 Dept. of education, Boston, Mass.
Organization and administration of part-time schools. (N.Y. State university. Bul. 697) 42p pa ’20 University of the state of New York, Albany, N.Y.
Cooperation
Farmers’ cooperation in Minnesota, 1913–1917. John D. Black, and Frank Robotka. (Minnesota agric. experiment station. Bul. 184) 62p pa ’19 St Paul, Minn.
The Russian cooperative movement. Frederic E. Lee. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bur. Miscellaneous ser. 101) 83p pa ’20
Cooperative marketing
Cooperation applied to marketing by Kansas farmers. Theodore Macklin. (Kansas. Agricultural experiment station. Bul. 224) 61p pa ’20 Kansas State agricultural college, Manhattan, Kansas
Cooperative marketing of horticultural products. J. W. Lloyd. (Illinois. Agricultural experiment station. Circular 244) 15p pa ’20 University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill.
Corn
Better seed corn. C. P. Hartley. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1175) 14p pa ’20
Corn oil
Production and utilization of corn oil in the United States. A. F. Sivers. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department bul. 904) 23p pa ’20
Cotton
Cost of producing cotton (842 records—1918) L. A. Moorhouse and M. R. Cooper. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department bul. 896) 59p pa ’20
Cotton variety tests 1918. A. C. Lewis, C. A. McLendon. (Georgia. State board of entomology. Bul. 52) 40p pa ’19 Atlanta, Ga.
Growing cotton in Arizona. G. E. Thompson and C. J. Wood. (Arizona. Agricultural experiment station. Bulletin 90) 12p pa ’19 Tucson, Arizona
Cotton boll weevil
Dusting machinery for cotton boll weevil control. Elmer Johnson, and B. R. Coad. (U.S. Agric. dept. Farmers’ bul. 1098) 31p pa ’20
Cotton warehouses
Construction and fire protection of cotton warehouses. J. M. Workman. (U.S. Dept. of agriculture. Bul. 801) 79p pa ’19
Cotton yarn
Cotton yarn; import and export trade in relation to the tariff. (U.S. Tariff commission. Tariff information ser. 12) 320p pa ’20
Cowpeas
Cowpeas: culture and varieties. W. J. Morse. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1148) 26p pa ’20
Crows
The crow in its relation to agriculture. E. R. Kalmbach. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1102) 20p pa ’20
Dairy cows
Rules for testing dairy cows for advanced registration. J. B. Fitch and F. W. Atkeson. (Kansas. Agricultural experiment station. Circular 82) 12p pa ’20 Manhattan. Kans.
Dairying
Government exhibit at the 1920 National dairy show. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department circular 139) 17p pa ’20
Danube river
The Danube. Joseph P. Chamberlain. (U.S. State dept.) 122p pa ’18
Published in 1918 as a confidential document.
Diabetic foods
Report of the Connecticut agricultural experiment station on food products and drugs, 1919: part 2.—diabetic foods. (Bul. 220) 82p pa ’20 Agricultural experiment station, New Haven, Conn.
Drama
One-act play in colleges and high schools, with bibliographies and a list of one-act plays for study and production. B. Roland Lewis. (Utah. University-Bul. v. 10, no. 16) 25p pa ’20 Salt Lake City, Utah
Drug Industry
Crude botanical drug industry. (U.S. Tariff commission. Tariff information ser. no. 19) 69p pa ’20
Drugs
Drug plants under cultivation. W. W. Stockberger. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 663) 50p pa ’20
Dry farming
Sixteen years of dry farm experiments in Utah. F. S. Harris, A. F. Bracken and I. J. Jensen. (Utah. Agricultural experiment station. Bul. 175) 43p pa ’20 Utah agricultural college, Logan, Utah
Education
National crisis in education: an appeal to the people. William T. Bawden. (U.S. Education bur. Bul. 1920, no. 29) 191p pa ’20
Report of the Proceedings of the National citizens conference on education called by the U.S. Commissioner of education and held at the Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C., May 19, 20, 21, 1920.
Statistical survey of education, 1917–18. H. R. Bonner. (U.S. Education bur. Bul. 1920, no. 31) 48p pa ’20
Advance sheets from the Biennial survey of education, in the United States, 1916–1918.
Statistics of state school systems, 1917–18; prepared by the Statistical division of the Bureau of education under the supervision of H. R. Bonner. (U.S. Education bur. Bul. 1920, no. 11) 155p pa ’20
Survey of education in Hawaii. (U.S. Education bur. Bul. 1920, no. 16) 171p pa ’20
Education, Adult
Adult working-class education in Great Britain and the United States: a study of recent developments. Charles Patrick Sweeney. (U.S. Labor statistics bur. Bul. 271) 101p pa ’20
Eggs
Preserving eggs. Joseph William Kinghorne. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1109) 8p pa ’20
Electrical Industry
Electrical goods in Spain. Philip S. Smith. (U.S. Bur. of foreign and domestic commerce. Special agents ser. 197) 178p
Employment management
Bibliography of employment management. Edward D. Jones. (U. S. Federal board for vocational education. Bul. 51) 119p pa ’20
Job specifications. Franklyn Meine. (U.S. Federal board for vocational education) 63p pa ’20
The labor audit, a method of industrial investigation. Ordway Tead. (U.S. Federal board for vocational education. Bul. 32) 47p pa ’20
English for foreigners
Teaching English to the foreign born; a teacher’s handbook. Henry H. Goldberger. (U.S. Education bureau. Bulletin, 1919, no. 80) 46p pa ’20
European war, 1914–1919
Neutrality proclamations, 1914–1918. (U.S. State dept.) 64p pa ’19
Export trade
Foreign trade promotion work. Letter from the chief of the Bureau of efficiency transmitting a report on the federal government’s activities in the promotion of foreign commerce. (U.S. Congress, 66:2. House document no. 650) 88p pa ’20 Apply to congressman
Paper work in export trade (document technique). Guy Edward Snider and others. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bur. Miscellaneous ser. 85) 2v pa ’20
Farm buildings
Beautifying the farmstead. F. L. Mulford. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1087) 65p pa ’20
Farm implements
Report of the Federal trade commission on the causes of high prices of farm implements, May 4, 1920. (U. S. Federal trade commission) 731p pa ’20
Farm leases
The farm lease contract. L. C. Gray and Howard A. Turner. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1164) 35p pa ’20
Farm management
Economic study of small farms near Washington, D.C. W. C. Funk. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department bulletin 848) 19p pa ’20
Factors that make for success in farming in the South. C. L. Goodrich. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1121) 31p pa ’20
Farm inventories. J. S. Ball. (U. S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1182) 32p pa ’20
Farm leasing systems in Wisconsin, B. H. Hibbard and J. D. Black. (Wisconsin. Agricultural experiment station. Research bulletin 47) 60p pa ’20 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Method of analyzing the farm business. H. M. Dixon and H. W. Hawthorne. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1139) 40p pa ’20
Planning the farmstead. M. C. Betts and W. R. Humphries. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1132) 24p pa ’20
Farm ownership
How California is helping people own farms and rural homes. Elwood Mead. (California. Agricultural experiment station. Circular 221) 28p pa ’20 University of California, Berkeley, Cal.
Farms
Selecting a farm. E. H. Thompson. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1088) 27p pa ’20
Feeble-minded
Schools and classes for feeble-minded and subnormal children 1918. (U.S. Education bureau. Bul. 1919:70) 37p pa ’20
Feeding of schoolchildren
The lunch hour at school. Katharine A. Fisher. (U.S. Education bur. Health education no. 7) 62p pa ’20
The rural hot lunch and the nutrition of the rural child. Mary G. McMormick. (New York State university of the State of New York. Bul. 696) 19p pa ’19 Albany, N.Y.
The rural school lunch. (Ohio university, Agricultural extension service. Circular v. 5, no. 8) 56p pa ’20 Columbus, O.
Fire prevention
Fires in cotton gins preventable. H. H. Brown. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department circular 28) 8p pa ’20
First aid
First aid to the industrial worker. S. Dana Hubbard. (New York city. Bureau of public health education. Keep well leaflet no. 19) 43p pa ’20 Department of health, New York
What to do in accidents. (U.S. Public health service. Miscellaneous pub. 21) 61p pa ’20
Farms
Farm land values in Iowa. L. C. Gray, and O. G. Lloyd. (U. S. Agriculture dept. Department bul. 874) 45p pa ’20
Flies
The stable fly; how to prevent its annoyance and its losses to live stock. F. C. Bishopp. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1097) 23p pa ’20
Food
Home supplies furnished by the farm. W. C. Funk. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmer’s bul. 1082) 19p pa ’20
Forage
Forage for the cotton belt. S. M. Tracy. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1125) 63p pa ’20
Foreign markets
Construction materials and machinery in Brazil. W. W. Ewing. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bureau. Special agents ser. 192) 96p pa ’20
Textile markets of Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay. S. S. Garry. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bur. Special agents ser. 194)
Foreign trade
United States
Annual review of the foreign commerce of the United States, 1919. (U.S. Foreign & domestic commerce bureau. Miscellaneous series 103) 36p pa ’20
Forestry
Care and improvement of the farm woods. C. R. Tillotson. (U. S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1177) 27p pa ’20
Forestry and farm income. Wilbur, R. Mattoon. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1117) 36p pa ’20
Forestry lessons on home woodlands. Wilbur R. Mattoon and Alvin Dille. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Bul. 863) 46p pa ’20
Growing and planting hardwood seedlings on the farm. C. R. Tillotson. (U. S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1123) 29p pa ’21
Fortifications
Pamphlet on the evolution of the art of fortification. Major General William M. Black. (U.S. Engineer school. Occasional papers 58) 107p pa ’19
Frost
Frost and the prevention of damage by it. Floyd D. Young. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1096) 48p pa ’20
Frost protection in lemon orchards. A. D. Shamel and others. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department bul. 821) 30p pa ’20
Fur trade
Maintenance of the fur supply. Ned Dearborn. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department circular 135) 12p pa ’20
Furnaces
One-register furnaces (pipeless furnaces) A. M. Daniels. (U. S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1174) 12p pa ’20
Game laws
Game laws for 1920; a summary of the provisions of federal, state and provincial statutes. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1138) 83p pa ’20
Game protection
Directory of officials and organizations concerned with the protection of birds and game, 1920. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department circular 131) 19p pa ’20
Games
Non-equipment group games for outdoor picnics and miscellaneous social gatherings. O. F. Hall. (Indiana. Purdue university. Agricultural extension div. Extension bul. 94) 12p pa ’20 Lafayette, Ind.
Gas
Standards for gas service. (U. S. Standards bur. Circular no. 32, 4th ed.) 140p pa ’20
Germany
Constitution
Constitutions of the German empire and German states, ed. by Edwin H. Zeydel. (U.S. State dept.) 542p pa ’19
Gipsy moth
Gipsy moth tree-banding material: how to make, use, and apply it. C. W. Collins and Clifford E. Hood. (U. S. Agriculture dept. Department bul. 899) 18p pa ’20
Government ownership of railroads
Government ownership of railroads. South Carolina high school debating league. (South Carolina. University bul. no. 81) 176p pa ’19
Grain
Growing irrigated grain in southern Idaho. L. C. Archer. (U. S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1103) 28p pa ’20
Grape Industry
Currant grape growing: a promising new industry. George C. Husmann. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department bul. 856) 16p pa ’20
Grapes
Products and utilization of muscadine grapes. W. J. Young. (South Carolina. Agricultural experiment station. Bul. 206) 37p pa ’20 Clemson college, S.C.
Grasses
The genera of grasses of the United States, with special reference to the economic species. A. S. Hitchcock. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Bul. 772) 307p pa ’20
Hail Insurance
Hail insurance on farm crops in the United States. V. N. Valgren. (U. S. Agriculture dept. Department bul. 912) 32p pa ’20
Health
Health almanac 1920. R. C. Williams. (U.S. Public health service. Public health bul. 98) 56p pa ’20
Health education
Child health program for parent-teacher associations and women’s clubs. Lucy Wood Collier. (U.S. Education bureau. Health education no. 5) 16p pa ’20
Hessian fly
The Hessian fly and how to prevent losses from it. W. R. Walton. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1083) 16p pa ’20
History
Syllabus in history. (New York. University of the State of New York. Bul. 710) 229p pa ’20 New York state library, Albany, N.Y.
Hogs
Hogs in Kansas. Report of the Kansas State board of agriculture for the quarter ending Sept. 1918. 429p pa ’19 Manhattan, Kansas
Home economics
Home economics courses of study for junior high schools. (U. S. Education bur. Home economics circular no. 9) 14p pa ’20
Hygiene
Rural hygiene. L. L. Lumsden. (U.S. Public health service. Reprint 570) 23p pa ’20
Ice
Harvesting and storing ice on the farm. John T. Bowen, (U.S. Agric. dept. Farmers’ bul. 1078) 31p pa ’20
Illegitimacy
Illegitimacy as a child welfare problem. Pt. 1, Emma O. Lundberg, and Katharine F. Lenroot. (U.S. Children’s bureau. Bureau publication no. 66) 105p pa ’20
A brief treatment of the prevalence and significance of birth out of wedlock, the child’s status, and the state’s responsibility for care and protection: bibliographical material
Indiana
One hundred years of Indiana’s resources. Richard Lieber (Indiana. Conservation dept. Publ. no. 11) 45p pa ’20 Department of conservation, Indianapolis, Ind.
Industrial education
Trade and industrial education for girls and women. Anna Lalor Burdick. (U.S. Federal board for vocational education. Bul. 58) 106p pa ’20
Pt. 1. Economic and social aspects of vocational education for girls and women.
Pt. 2. Ways and means of establishing and operating a program.
Training of workers in trades and industries. (Texas university. Bul. 2002) 16p pa ’20 Austin, Texas
Industrial fatigue
Studies in industrial physiology: fatigue in relation to working capacity. 1. Comparison of an eight-hour plant and a ten-hour plant. Josephine Goldmark and Mary D. Hopkins. (U.S. Public health service. Public health bul. 106) 213p pa ’20
Industries
Industrial survey in selected industries in the United States, 1919; preliminary report. Allan H. Willett. (U.S. Labor statistics bureau. Bul. 265) 509p pa ’20
Infectious diseases
The common infectious diseases and their prevention. A. G. Young. (Maine. Health department. Bul. v 2, n.s. no. 11) 20p pa ’19 Portland, Maine.
Insect powder
Insect powder. C. C. McDonnell and others. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department bul. 824) 100p pa ’20
Insurance
A system of records for local farmers’ mutual fire insurance companies. V. N. Valgren. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Bul. 840) 22p pa ’20
Irrigation
The western farmer’s water right. R. P. Teele. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department bul. 913) 14p pa ’20
Irrigation plants
The small irrigation pumping plant. W. L. Powers, and W. J. Gilmore. (Oregon. Agricultural college experiment station. Station bul. 160) 16p pa ’19 Corvallis, Oregon.
Jack pine
Jack pine. William Dean Sterrett. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Bul. 820) 47p pa ’20
Japanese in the U. S.
California and the Oriental; Japanese, Chinese and Hindus. (California. State board of control) 236p pa ’20 The Governor, Sacramento, California
Kindergarten
The kindergarten as an Americanizer. S. E. Weber. (U.S. Education bureau. Kindergarten circular 5) 5p pa ’19
Knots
Practical knots, hitches and splices. C. A. Norman. (Indiana. Purdue university. Agricultural extension div. Extension bul. 88) 16p pa ’20 Lafayette, Ind.
Kudzu
Kudzu. C. V. Piper. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department circular 89) 7p pa ’20
Labor
Conferences
Proceedings of the first Industrial conference (called by the President) October 6 to 23, 1919. (U. S. Industrial conference, 1st.) 285p pa ’20 U. S. Labor dept.
Labor laws
New York labor laws enacted in 1920. (N.Y. [State] Labor dept. Special bul. 99) 93p pa ’20 Albany, N.Y.
Labor turnover
The turnover of labor. Boris Emmet. (U.S. Federal board for vocational education. Bul. 46) 60p pa ’19
Latin America
Guide books
Commercial travelers’ guide to Latin America. Ernst B. Filsinger. (U. S. Foreign and domestic commerce bureau. Miscellaneous ser. 89) 592p portfolio of maps ’20 Supt. of doc. $1.25
Laundering
Home laundering. Lydia Ray Balderston. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1099) 32p pa ’20
Lawns
Spraying lawns with iron sulfate to eradicate dandelions. M. T. Munn. (N.Y. Agricultural experiment station, Geneva. Bul. 466) 8p pa ’19
Leasing of public lands
Regulations concerning coal mining leases, permits and licenses, under act of February 25, 1920. (U.S. General land office. Circular 679) 28p pa ’20
Leather
The care of leather. F. P. Veitch, H. P. Holman and R. W. Frey. (U. S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1183)
Leather industry
Hides and leather in France. Norman Hertz. (U.S. Bur. of foreign and domestic commerce. Special agents ser. 200) 159p pa ’20
Legumes
The story of legumes. W. C. Frazier. (Wisconsin university. College of agriculture. Extension service. Circular 125) 19p pa ’20 Madison, Wisconsin
Lumber
Production of lumber, lath and shingles in 1918. Franklin H. Smith. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Bul. 845) 47p pa ’20
Machinery
Industrial machinery in France and Belgium. Charles P. Wood. (U.S. Bur. of foreign and domestic commerce. Special agents ser. 204) 61p pa ’20
Malaria
What can a community afford to pay to rid itself of malaria? L. M. Fisher. (U.S. Public health service. Reprint 595) 7p pa ’20
Manganese
Manganese: uses, preparation, mining costs and the production of ferro-alloys. C. M. Weld and others. (U.S. Mines bureau. Bul. 173) 209p pa ’20
Manure
Handling farm manure. F. L. Duley. (Missouri. Agricultural experiment station. Bul. 166) 29p pa ’19 Columbia, Missouri
Marketing
Cooperative marketing. O. B. Jesness. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1144) 27p pa ’20
Marketing by federations. Theodore Macklin. (Wisconsin. Agricultural experiment sta. Bul. 322) 24p pa ’20 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.
Marketing eastern grapes. Dudley Alleman. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department bul. 861) 61p pa ’20
Marketing of farm produce
Methods for marketing vegetables in California. Stanley S. Rogers. (California. Agric. experiment station. Circular 217) 19p pa Berkeley, Cal. University of California
Markets
The New Haven market. I. G. Davis and G M. Stack. (Connecticut. Agricultural college. Extension service. Bul. 18) 32p pa ’20 Storrs, Conn.
Markets and marketing
Cooperative marketing in Mississippi through county agents. (Mississippi. Agricultural & mechanical college. Extension bulletin 15.) 20p pa ’20. Agricultural college, Miss.
Cooperative marketing of woodland products. A. F. Hawes. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1100) 15p pa ’20
Meat
Farm slaughtering and use of lamb and mutton. C. G. Potts. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1172) 32p pa ’20
Milk
City milk plants: construction and arrangement. Ernest Kelly and C. E. Clement. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department bul. 849) 35p pa ’20
Milk for the family. (U.S. Agriculture dept Department circular 129) 4p pa ’20
The food value of milk. Edna L. Ferry. (Connecticut. Agric. experiment station. Bul. 215) 30p pa ’19 New Haven, Conn.
Milk powder
Dried milk powder in infant feeding; safety, usefulness, and comparative value: a preliminary report. W. H. Price. (U.S. Public health service. Reprint 588) 22p pa ’20
Millinery trade
Conditions affecting health in the millinery industry. S. Dana Hubbard and Christine R. Kefauver. (New York city. Health dept. Monograph ser. 22) 39p pa ’20
Mineral industry
Industrial readjustments of certain mineral industries affected by the war. (U.S. Tariff commission. Tariff information series 21) 320p pa ’20
Minerals
Our mineral supplies. H. D. McCaskey, and E. F. Burchard. (U.S. Geological survey. Bul. 666) 278p pa ’19
Mines and mining
A glossary of the mining and mineral industry. Albert H. Fay. (U.S. Mines bureau. Bul. 95) 754p pa ’20
Mining laws
State mining laws on the use of electricity in and about coal mines. L. C. Ilsley. (U.S. Mines bureau. Technical paper 271) 53p pa ’20
Mortality
Mortality statistics, 1918. 19th annual report. (U.S. Census bur.) 603p pa ’20
Motion pictures
Motion pictures and motion picture equipment; a handbook of general information. F. W. Reynolds and Carl Anderson. (U.S. Education bureau. Bul. 1919, no. 82) 16p pa ’20
Motion pictures of the U.S. department of agriculture; a list of films and their uses. Fred W. Perkins and George R. Goergens. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department circular 114) 22p pa ’20
Mount Hood
Forest trails and highways of the Mount Hood region. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department circular 105) 32p pa ’20
Natural gas
Waste and correct use of natural gas in the home. Samuel S. Wyer. (U.S. Mines bureau. Technical paper 257) 23p pa ’20
Netherlands
Economic aspects of the commerce and industry of the Netherlands, 1912–1918. Blaine F. Moore. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bureau. Miscellaneous ser. 91) 109p pa ’19
Norway
Norway: a commercial and industrial handbook. Nels A. Bengtison. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bur. Special agents ser. 196) 58p pa ’20
Nutrition
Feeding the child. J. E. Darrah. (Texas. College of industrial arts. Bul. no. 77) 30p pa ’20 Denton, Texas.
Oats
Fall-sown oats. C. W. Warburton and T. R. Stanton. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1119) 21p pa ’20
Onions
Onion diseases and their control. J. C. Walker. (U.S. Agric. dept. Farmers’ bul. 1060) 23p pa ’19
Orchards
Orchard rejuvenation in south-eastern Ohio. F. H. Ballow and I. P. Lewis. (Ohio. Agricultural experiment station. Bul. 339) 42p pa ’20 Experiment station, Wooster, Ohio
Paraguay
Paraguay: a commercial handbook. W. L. Schurz. (U. S. Foreign & domestic commerce bur. Special agents ser. 199) 195p map pa ’20
Peaches
Peaches: production estimates and important commercial districts and varieties. H. P. Gould, and Frank Andrews. (U.S. Agric. dept. Bul. 806) 35p pa ’19
Peanut butter
Manufacture and use of peanut butter. H. C. Thompson. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department circular 128) 16p pa ’20
Peanuts
Peanut growing for profit. W. R. Beattie. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1127) 33p pa ’20
Pears
Pears: production estimates and important commercial districts and varieties. H. P. Gould, and Frank Andrews. (U.S. Agric. dept. Bul. 822) 16p pa ’20
Peat
Agricultural value and reclamation of Minnesota peat soils. F. J. Alway. (Minn. Agricultural experiment station. Bul. 188) 136p pa ’20 University farm, St. Paul, Minn.
Personal hygiene
Keeping fit. (U.S. Public health service) 13p pa ’20
Pickles
Fermented pickles. Edwin Le Fevre. (U. S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1159) 23p pa ’20
Pine
The western pine bark-beetle, a serious pest of western yellow pine in Oregon. Willard J. Chamberlin. (Oregon. Experiment station. Station bul. 172) 30p pa ’20 Corvallis, Ore.
Poison ivy
Ivy and sumac poisoning. E. A. Sweet and C. V. Grant. (U.S. Public health service. Reprint 584) 18p pa ’20
Poison ivy and poison sumac and their eradication. C. V. Grant and A. A. Hansen. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmer’s bul. 1166) 16p pa ’20
Pork
Selecting, dressing and curing pork on the farm. M. D. Helser. (Iowa. Agric. experiment station. Circular 61) 24p pa ’19 Ames, Iowa.
Potash
Potash deposits in Spain. Hoyt S. Gale. (U.S. Geological survey. Bul. 715—A) 16p pa ’20
Potash deposits of Alsace. Hoyt S. Gale. (U.S. Geological survey. Bul. 715—B) 39p pa ’20
Poultry
Care of baby chicks: boys and girls poultry club work. (U.S. Agric. dept. Department circular 14) 7p pa ’19
Common poultry diseases. D. M. Green. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 114) 8p pa ’20
Housing farm poultry. A. G. Philips. (Purdue university. Agricultural experiment station. Circular 98) 22p pa ’20 Lafayette, Indiana
How to select good layers. Frank E. Mussehl. (Nebraska, Agricultural experiment station. Circular 12) 8p pa ’20 Lincoln, Nebraska
Improving mongrel farm flocks through selected standard-bred cockerels. William A. Lippincott. (Kansas. Agricultural experiment station. Bul. 223) 48p pa ’20 Kansas State agricultural college, Manhattan, Kansas
Incubation of hens’ eggs. Harry M. Lamon. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1106) 8p pa ’20
Mites and lice on poultry. F. C. Bishopp and H. P. Wood. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 801) 32p pa ’20
Poultry houses. Alfred R. Lee. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1113) 8p pa ’20
Selection and care of poultry breeding stock. Rob. R. Slocum. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1116) 10p pa ’20
Selection and preparation of fowls for exhibition. J. W. Kinghorne. (U. S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1115) 12p pa ’20
Poultry houses
Poultry houses, boys and girls poultry club work. (U.S. Agric. dept. Department circular 19) 8p pa ’19
Privies
How to build and maintain approved types of improved privies for rural districts and towns without sewer systems. (Texas. Bureau of county health work. Special bulletin) 12p pa ’20 State board of health, Austin, Texas
Sanitary privies: plans and working directions for inexpensive sanitary privies, with notes on the protection of surface wells. (Illinois. Public health dept.) 31p pa ’20 Springfield, Ill.
Prohibition laws
Laws relating to national prohibition enforcement, with questions and answers based on titles I and II of the prohibition act of October 28, 1919. (U.S. Bur. of internal revenue) 199p ’20
Pruning
Pruning the apple. V. R. Gardner. (Missouri. Agricultural experiment station. Circular 90) 20p pa ’20 Columbia, Missouri
Rabbits
Rabbit raising. Ned Dearborn. (U.S. Agricultural dept. Farmers’ bul. 1090) 35p pa ’20
Rainier national forest
Mountain outings on the Rainier national forest. (U. S. Agriculture dept. Department circular 103) 28p map pa ’20
Recreation
Recreation and rural health. E. C. Lindeman. (U.S. Education bur. Teachers’ leaflet no. 7) 14p pa ’20
Rhodes scholarships
The Rhodes scholarships: announcement for the United States of America, 1920. (U.S. Education bureau. Higher education circular 19) 4p pa ’20
Roses
About roses. Alfred C. Hottes. (Ohio university. Agricultural extension service. Bulletin, v. 15, no. 5) 16p pa ’20 Columbus, O.
Salaries
Salaries in universities and colleges. (U.S. Education bureau. Bul. 1920, no. 20) 43p pa ’20
Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo, its past and its present condition. (Dominican Republic. Military government) 67p pa ’20 Military government, Santo Domingo City, D. R.
Saskatchewan
The province of Saskatchewan, Canada: its development and opportunities. F. H. Kitto. (Canada. Natural resources intelligence branch) 153p pa ’19 Department of the Interior. Ottawa, Canada.
Schools
Administration and supervision of village schools. W. S. Deffenbaugh and J. C. Muerman. (U.S. Education bureau. Bul. 1919, no. 86) 63p pa ’20
Rural school playgrounds and equipment. K. Cecil Richmond. (U.S. Education bur. Teacher’s leaflet 11) 12p pa ’20
Schools in the bituminous coal regions of the Appalachian mountains. W. S. Deffenbaugh. (U.S. Education bur. Bul. 1920, no. 21) 31p pa ’20
Statistics of public high schools. 1917–18. H. R. Bonner. (U.S. Education bur. Bul. 1920, no. 19) 192p pa ’20
Advance sheets from the Biennial survey of Education in the United States, 1916–18
Seeds
New Missouri seed law. Jewell Mayes. (Missouri. State board of agriculture. Monthly bulletin, v 17, no. 11) 35p pa ’19 Jefferson City, Mo.
The New York seed law and seed testing. M. T. Munn. (New York. Agricultural experiment station. Bul. 476) 15p pa ’20 Geneva, N.Y.
Sewage disposal
Municipal wastes: their character—collection—disposal. H. R. Crohurst. (U. S. Public health service. Public health bul. 107) 98p pa ’20
Sewage disposal: residences and small institutions. R. B. Wiley. (Purdue university. Engineering experiment station. Bul. 6) 36p pa ’20 Purdue university, Lafayette, Ind.
Shipping
Shipping act and merchant marine act, 1920, suits in admiralty act, emergency shipping legislation and other laws, proclamations and executive orders relating to the shipping board and emergency fleet corporation, revised to July 1, 1910. (U.S. Shipping bd.) 151p pa ’20
Training for the steamship business. R. S. MacElwee. (U.S. Foreign & domestic commerce bur. Miscellaneous ser. 98) 49p pa ’20
Sickness
Keeping tab on sickness in the plant. Dean K. Brundage and Bernard J. Newman. (U.S. Public health service. Reprint 589) 12p pa ’20
Slugs
Gray garden slug. A. L. Lovett and A. B. Black (Oregon. Experiment station. Station bul. 170) 43p pa ’20 Corvallis, Ore.
Smuts
Rusts and smuts of grain crops. V. W. Jackson. (Manitoba. Manitoba farmers’ library. Extension bul. 44) 35p pa ’19 Manitoba department of agriculture and immigration, Winnipeg, Canada
Soldiers
Burial
The care of the fallen; a report to the Secretary of war on American military dead overseas. (U.S. War dept.) 44p pa ’20
South America
Seeing South America: principal routes, larger cities, natural wonders, time required, approximate cost and other condensed information for prospective travelers. William A. Reid. (Pan American Union) 80p pa ’20 Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.
Spain
Economic conditions
Spanish finance and trade. Arthur N. Young. (U. S. Bur. of foreign and domestic commerce. Miscellaneous ser. 202) 199p pa ’20
Squabs
Squab raising. Alfred R. Lee. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 684) 23p pa ’20
Starling
Economic value of the starling in the United States. E. R. Kalmbach and I. N. Galbrielson. (U. S. Agriculture dept. Department bul. 868) 66p pa ’20
State government
Movement for the reorganization of state administration. Charles Grove Haines. (Texas university. Bul. no. 1848: August 25, 1918) 80p pa ’18 University of Texas, Austin, Tex.
Stowage
Stowage of ship cargoes. Thomas Rothwell Taylor. (U.S. Bur. of foreign and domestic commerce. Miscellaneous ser. 92) 350p pa ’20
Sugar
Refined sugar; costs, prices, and profits. (U.S. Tariff commission. Tariff information series no. 16) 43p pa ’20
Sugar supply
Report of the Federal trade commission on sugar supply and prices. (U. S. Federal trade commission) 205p pa ’20
Swine
Feeding garbage to hogs. F. G. Ashbrook and A. Wilson. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1133) 26p pa ’20
Switzerland
Economic position of Switzerland during the war. Louis A. Rufener. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bureau. Miscellaneous ser. 90) 88p pa ’19
Tariff
Import and export schedule of France. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bureau) 56p pa ’20
Import and export schedules of Italy. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bur. Miscellaneous ser. 100) 93p pa ’20
Reciprocity with Canada; a study of the arrangement of 1911. (U.S. Tariff commission) 114p pa ’20
Subject index to tariff information surveys and reports. (U.S. Tariff comm. Tariff information ser. 17) 25p pa ’20
Teachers
Salaries, pensions, etc.
Last of references on teachers’ salaries. (U.S. Education bureau. Library leaflet no. 8) 16p pa ’19
Telephone industry
The telephone industry; a report submitted to Alfred E. Smith, Governor of the State of New York. (New York (State) Labor dept. Special bul. 100) 95p pa ’20 Albany, N.Y.
Textile Industry
Textile markets of Brazil. L. S. Garry. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bur. Special agents ser. 203) 48p pa ’20
Timber
Timber depletion and the answer; a summary of report on timber depletion and related subjects prepared in response to Senate resolution 311. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department circular 112) 16p pa ’20
Tobacco
Supply and distribution of Connecticut valley cigar leaf tobacco. Samuel H. De Vault. (Massachusetts, Agricultural experiment station. Bul. 193) 94p pa ’19 Amherst, Mass.
Tractors
Influence of the tractor on use of horses. L. A. Reynoldson. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1093) 26p pa ’20
Tractors in Connecticut. Walter T. Ackermann. (Connecticut. Agricultural college. Extension service. Bul. 25) 16p pa ’20 Storrs, Conn.
Treaty-making power
The treaty-making power in various countries: a collection of memoranda concerning the negotiation, conclusion and ratification of treaties and conventions, with excerpts from the fundamental laws of various countries. (U.S. State dept.) 89p pa ’19
Trees
Street trees. F. L. Mulford. (U.S. Agric. dept. Bul. 816) 58p pa ’20
Tree surgery. J. Franklin Collins. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Farmers’ bul. 1178) 32p pa ’20
Tree planting in Texas towns and cities. Lenthall Wyman. (Texas. State forester. Bul. 11) 40p pa ’20 Office of state forester. College Station, Texas
Tuberculosis
Questions and answers on tuberculosis. Benjamin K. Hays. (U.S. Public health service. Miscellaneous publ. 26) 10p pa ’20
Tuberculosis background for advisers and teachers. John W. Turner. (U. S. Federal board for vocational education. Bul. 59) 42p pa ’20
Turpentine
Turpentine; its sources, properties, uses, transportation, and marketing with recommended specifications. F. P. Veitch and V. E. Grottisch. (U.S. Agriculture dept. Department bul. 898) 51p pa ’20
United States
Statistical record of the progress of the United States, 1800–1920, and monetary, commercial, and financial statistics of principal countries. Edward Whitney. (U.S. Bur. of foreign and domestic commerce) 104p pa ’20
From the Statistical abstract of the United States, 1919, with fiscal-year figures for 1919 and 1920, which are subject to revision.
Navy department
Navy ordnance activities, World war, 1917–1918. (U.S. Ordnance bur.) 323p ’20
Statistics
Statistical abstract of the United States, 1919. (U.S. Foreign and domestic commerce bur.) 864p ’20 50c U.S. Supt. of doc.
University extension
Class extension work in the universities and colleges of the United States. Arthur J. Klein. (U.S. Education bureau. Bul. 1919: 62) 48p pa ’20
Public discussion and information service of university extension. Walton S. Bittner. (U.S. Education bureau. Bul. 1919, no. 61) 54p pa ’20
Utah
Wonders of Utah geology. (Utah. University. Bul. v 10, no. 13) 24p pa ’19 Salt Lake City, Utah
Vegetable gardens
Planning the home vegetable garden; growing early plants. Robert Bier. (New York state. College of agriculture. Cornell reading course for the farm) 22p pa ’19 Ithaca, N.Y.
Venereal diseases
Fighting venereal diseases. (U.S. Public health service) 37p pa ’20
Virgin Islands
Virgin Islands: report of Joint commission appointed under authority of the concurrent resolution passed by the Congress of the United States, January, 1920. (U.S. Congress, 66:2. House document no. 734) 38p pa ’20 Apply to Congressman
Vocational education
Third annual report of the Federal board for vocational education, 1919. 2v pa ’19
v 1—Vocational education v 2—Vocational rehabilitation
Vocational education: compulsory part-time education; information for the use of teachers, school authorities, employers of youth, and the general public. (California state board of education. Bul. 23 P. T. E.) 61p pa ’20 Sacramento, Cal.
Vocational guidance
Industrial opportunities and training for women and girls. Bertha M. Nienburg. (U.S. Women’s bur. Bul. 13) 48p pa ’20
Survey of junior commercial occupations. F. G. Nichols. (U.S. Federal board for vocational education through State boards for vocational education in nineteen states.)
Wages
The wage-setting process. Alfred B. Rich. (U.S. Federal board for vocational education. Bulletin 44) 30p pa ’19
War medals
Congressional medal of honor, the Distinguished service cross and the Distinguished service medal, issued by the War department, April 6, 1917–November 11, 1919. (U.S.—Adjutant-general) 1054p pa ’20
Warehouses
Information concerning the United States warehouse act. (U.S. Markets bur. Service and regulatory announcements 61) 36p pa ’20
Washington (State)
Advantages and opportunities of the state of Washington for homebuilders, investors and travelers. Harry F. Giles. (Washington. Statistics & immigration bureau) 152p pa ’20 Olympia, Wash.
Weeds
Wisconsin weed law with interpretations and illustrations. (Wisconsin. Agriculture dept. Bul. 26) 28p pa ’20 Madison, Wis.
White Mountain national forest
Vacation on the White Mountain national forest. (U. S. Agricultural dept. Department circular 100) 24p pa ’20
Women
The farm woman’s problems. Florence E. Ward. (U. S. Agriculture dept. Department circular 148) 24p pa ’20
Women in Industry
The new position of women in American industry. (U. S. Women’s bureau. Bul. 12) 158p pa ’20
Woodlands
Making woodlands profitable in the southern states. Wilbur R. Matoon. (U.S. Agric. dept. Farmers’ bul. 1071) 38p pa ’20
Wool industry
A survey of the British wool manufacturing industry. (U.S. Tariff commission) 106p pa ’20
Printed for use of Committee on ways and means, House of Representatives.
Yellowstone national park
Geological history of the Yellowstone national park. Arnold Hague. (U.S. National park service) 22p pa ’20
Yosemite national park
Sketch of Yosemite National park and an account of the origin of the Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy valleys. F. E. Matthes. (U.S. National park service) 45p pa ’20 10c Supt. of documents
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Quarterly List of New Technical and Industrial Books
Chosen and annotated for general libraries by the Applied Science Reference Department Pratt Institute Free Library, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Nos. 14–17 FEBRUARY, 1921
=Fuel oil in industry.= S. O. Andros. Shaw pub. co. 244p. $3.75.
A timely book giving information about the properties of fuel oil, its value as compared with coal, and details of methods of using it in industrial plants, locomotives, steamships, heating of buildings, etc. Contains a chapter on colloidal fuel, which consists of pulverized coal held in suspension in oil.
Author is editor of _Oil News_.
=Inventions=; their development, purchase and sale. W. F. Baff. Van Nostrand. 230p. $2.00.
Written by a patent attorney, the book discusses how an inventor, having secured his patent, may sell or otherwise realize on it, the many points being considered in detail.
=Boy bird house architecture.= L. H. Baxter. Bruce. 61p. $1.00.
Designed to encourage a liking for birds, to teach something of their habits, how to construct and put up houses to attract the various kinds of birds, and how to conduct bird house contests. Illustrated with half-tones and twenty plates of drawings showing details of design and construction of bird houses, and feeding devices.
Author is director of Manual Training, Public Schools, St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
=Armature winding and motor repair=; practical information and data covering winding and reconnecting procedure for direct and alternating current machines, compiled for electrical men responsible for the operation and repair of motors and generators in industrial plants and for repairmen and armature winders in electrical shops. D. H. Braymer. McGraw. 515p. $3.00.
A practical book for repairmen who have to do with the locating of troubles and the repair of electric motors in repair shop work, power station work, and industrial plants. The matter is for the most part a compilation from various sources.
Author is managing editor of _Electrical World_.
=Forest products: their manufacture and use.= N. C. Brown. Wiley. 471p. $3.75.
Treats of the production, manufacture and use of many important forest products, but not of lumber. Chapters are devoted to wood pulp and paper; tanning materials; veneers; cooperage; turpentine, tar, pitch; wood distillation; charcoal; railroad ties; piles and piling; posts; mine timbers; fuelwood; shingles; maple syrups and sugar; rubber; dyewoods and materials; excelsior; cork. A bibliography accompanies each of the 22 chapters.
Author is professor of forest utilization, New York College of Forestry, Syracuse University.
=The wireless experimenter’s manual, incorporating “How to conduct a radio club.”= Describes parliamentary procedure in the formation of a radio club; the design of wireless transmitting and receiving apparatus, long distance receiving sets, vacuum tube amplifiers, radio telegraph and telephone sets, the tuning and calibration of transmitters and receivers, general radio measurements and many other features. Completely revised and rewritten. E. E. Bucher. Wireless press. 350p. $2.25.
One of the best books for the amateur wireless experimenter.
Author is instructing engineer, Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America.
=The essentials of business law.= rev. ed. F. M. Burdick. Appleton. 361p.
A high school text-book, plainly written, designed to teach “those legal principles and ideas involved in ordinary business affairs,” and some of their applications.
The last previous ed. was published in 1908; the present ed. has been revised and the necessary changes made to bring it into conformity with present day practice.
Author is Dwight professor of law in Columbia University Law School.
=How to use cement for concrete construction for town and farm.= H. C. Campbell. Stanton. $2.00.
Contains plain directions for using concrete for the usual purposes in town and country, and in addition tells how to construct tennis courts, flower boxes, lawn seats, etc. Fully illustrated.
=What bird is that?= A pocket museum of the land birds of the Eastern United States arranged according to season. F. M. Chapman. Appleton. $1.25.
Eight colored plates, supposed to represent as many cases in a natural history museum and showing pictures of three hundred birds arranged according to season, in their proper colors and drawn to scale. The text of this book gives an entry for each one of the birds, describing its appearance, its length in inches, its range, the dates of its arrival in various places, its habits, and refers by number to its picture in the colored plates.
Author is curator of birds in the American Museum of Natural History.
=Language for men of affairs.= 2 v. Ronald. 1136p. $8.00.
V. 1. Talking business. J. M. Clapp. Considers voice production, enunciation, vocabulary, construction of sentences, and business conversation. Has sections on the preparation and delivery of business addresses.
Author is lecturer on the language of business, New York University.
V. 2. Business writing. J. M. Lee. ed. Considers business English in written form for correspondence, advertising, journalism, report-writing, preparing copy for the printer, proof-reading, etc.
Editor is director, department of journalism, College of the City of New York.
The work is an important contribution to the literature of the subject and valuable to executives, salesmen and others engaged in business.
=The hen at work=: a brief manual of home poultry culture. Ernest Cobb. Putnam. 233p. $1.50.
A book on keeping hens for egg production. Considers breeds, housing, hatching, raising chickens, diseases, etc. Contains a chapter on ducks.
=American machinists’ handbook and dictionary of shop terms=: a reference book of machine shop and drawing room data, methods and definitions. 3d. ed. thoroughly rev. and enl. F. H. Colvin and F. A. Stanley. McGraw. 758p. $4.00.
Revision of a standard machine shop and drafting room reference book, enlarged by 160 pages above the last previous ed., published in 1914, and the original text revised where necessary.
Authors are respectively editor and associate editor of _American Machinist_.
=Automotive ignition systems=; prepared in the extension division of the University of Wisconsin. E. L. Consoliver, and G. I. Mitchell. McGraw. 269p. $2.50 (Engineering education series)
Correspondence school text book dealing plainly with the various gasoline engine ignition systems used on automobiles, trucks, tractors and airplanes. Addressed to workers who have to install, adjust, and repair ignition systems in factories and shops, and to automobile owners.
Authors are connected with the mechanical engineering department, University of Wisconsin.
=Submarine warfare of today=; how the submarine menace was met and vanquished, with descriptions of the inventions and devices used, fast boats, mystery ships, nets, aircraft, etc., also describing the selection and training of the enormous personnel used in this new navy. C. W. Domville-Fife. Lippincott. 304p. $2.25. (Science of today series)
An interesting, popularly written book. Describes conditions as they were at the beginning of the war, and tells of the measures adopted and the devices employed to meet the submarine menace by convoying ships, laying mines, and destroying enemy submarines. Fully illustrated.
Author was of the staff of the British school of submarine mining, and has written other books on submarines.
=Traveling salesmanship.= A. W. Douglas. Macmillan. 153p. $1.75.
“This little book is not merely the usual study of the psychology of Salesmanship, but rather the result of forty years’ close contact with the traveling salesmen of one of the largest distributing mercantile organizations of this country.” _Preface._
Contains chapters on the nature and function of salesmanship, preparations for the road, work on the road, contact with customers, competition and prices, some phases of selling, claims, the human equation.
The author is chairman, committee on statistics of the United States Chamber of Commerce.
=Experimental wireless stations; their theory, design, construction and operation; including wireless telephony, vacuum tube and quenched spark systems=; a complete elementary course of instruction in and on account of sharply tuned modern wireless installations. New 1920 ed. P. E. Edelman. Henley. 392p. $3.00.
A revised and enlarged edition of a successful amateur’s book on wireless communication. Some knowledge of the fundamentals of electricity and mathematics on the part of the reader is presupposed.
=Direct-current motor and generator troubles.= T. S. Gandy and E. C. Schacht. McGraw. 270p. $2.50.
A book for the man concerned with the selection, operation, care and repair of direct-current electrical machinery. Discusses types of motors and generators, and their uses; their installation, starting and operation; switchboards; troubles and their remedies; tests and repairs, etc.
Senior author is designing electrical engineer of direct-current machinery, General Electric Company.
=Advanced shop drawing=; prepared in the extension division of the University of Wisconsin. V. C. George. McGraw. 147p. $1.60.
Correspondence school text book. A book for the student who, having had training in elementary mechanical drawing requires practice in its applications to special phases of the subject. The book has chapters on working drawings; gearing; isometric, cabinet and shaded drawings; patent office, structural and electrical drawings; piping layouts, and sheet metal work. Well illustrated with line drawings.
Author is instructor in mechanical engineering, University of Wisconsin.
=Every step in canning=: the cold-pack process. G. V. Gray. Forbes. 253p. $1.25.
Plain directions for canning in glass and tin by the one period, cold-pack process. Tells how to can fruits and vegetables; to make and can soups, jellies, jams and preserves; to dry fruits and vegetables; to cure, smoke and preserve meats; to preserve eggs, etc.
Addressed to those who are concerned with canning and preserving at home.
Author was formerly associate professor of home economics, Iowa State College.
=Food facts for the home-maker.= L. S. Harvey. Houghton. 314p. $2.50.
“This book is intended to be a help to the young housekeeper who is starting out in the new home without either a knowledge of science or the technical training which could help her. The book is also intended to help those women who have kept house for years and who are excellent cooks and careful planners. It should give a scientific foundation to their technical skill ... perhaps showing them ways in which they may shorten processes and thus save time and energy.” _Preface._
Considers the various articles of diet and their food values, kitchen arrangement and equipment, buying food for infants and young children, school children, invalids. Contains recipes, and could supplement cook books.
Partly based on lectures to classes. Author is town dietitian, Brookline, Mass.
=Concrete work=; a book to aid the self-development of workers in concrete and for students in engineering. W. K. Hatt and W. C. Voss. v. 1. Wiley. 451p. $4.00. (Wiley technical series: Industrial texts).
The first book in a series of industrial texts written by teachers who trained men in military schools during the War, the methods and materials worked out in that practice being utilized in the preparation of these texts. The object of the authors is to present scientific principles with their practical applications in a manner intelligible to the worker or novice in concrete work, in order to enable him to fit himself for a foreman’s position or enter into business as a local contractor. The present work is in 2 vols., the second of which is now in press, and the matter is so arranged that the two should be used together.
Authors are respectively professor of civil engineering, Purdue University, and head, department of architectural construction, Wentworth Institute.
=Motor car upholstering=; a plainly written book on the fundamentals of motor car trimming and upholstering. Phila., Hirst-Roger Co. 180p. $2.50.
Designed as an instruction book in vehicle trimming for men taking up that kind of work. Describes the materials, tools and methods employed, and contains many illustrations.
The matter is well prepared and reliable.
Trade publication of a firm which manufactures automobile carpets.
=The new stone age.= H. E. Howe. Century. 289p. $3.00.
By the “new stone age” is meant the age of concrete construction. The present book, written for the layman, tells of the materials employed and of many uses to which they are applied. The treatment is general, no details being given. A timely book in view of the wide field of applications of concrete in building and engineering work.
=The new merchant marine.= E. N. Hurley. Century. 296p. $3.00.
The former chairman of the United States Shipping Board tells in this book of how the problem of supplying ships for war demands was met, and discusses the future of the American merchant marine, foreign fields of commerce and related topics.
=Elements of retail salesmanship.= P. W. Ivey. Macmillan. 247p.
A text-book for store classes in salesmanship, or for individual reading. Author writes from personal experience and bases his book on lectures to store classes. Considers knowing the goods, knowing the customer, personality, the selling process, and store system and method. Problems are provided for each of the nine chapters, and a bibliography of business books is appended.
Author is associate professor of economics and commerce, University of Nebraska.
=The engines of the human body=, being the substance of Christmas lectures given at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Christmas 1916–1917. Arthur Keith. Lond. Williams. 204p. 12s. 6d.
At the Christmas holiday season the Royal Institution of Great Britain invites some eminent scientist to deliver popular lectures to young people. In the lectures which make up this book the author considers the human body from an engineering standpoint: the bones as levers, the muscles as internal combustion engines, the heart as a pump, the nerves as a telephone system, etc. It is an interesting boys’ book on physiology, and would interest some more mature readers.
=Splendors of the sky.= I. E. Lewis. Duffield 343p. $1.50.
Interesting chapters on astronomy written for the general reader. Valuable as a popular account of recent progress in astronomy. Illustrated. Appeared originally in a daily newspaper.
=Artificial light, its influence upon civilization.= M. Luckiesch. Century. 366p. $2.50. (The century books of useful science.)
The author traces the methods of producing and uses of artificial lighting from its earliest forms of which we have knowledge to the present day, and considers how human progress has been advanced by the overcoming of darkness. The book is interestingly written and well illustrated.
Author is director of applied science, Nela research laboratory, National Lamp Works of the General Electric Company.
=The motor cycle handbook=: the construction, operation, care and repair of modern types of motor cycles, their accessories and equipment. H. P. Manly. Drake. 320p. $1.50.
A practical book describing and illustrating in considerable detail various types of motor cycles, their engines, fuel systems, electrical equipment, transmissions, running gear, etc. Contains chapters on power attachments and side cars, and on motor cycle repairs.
The author has written several practical books on the automobile.
=Automobile electric systems=; an analysis of all the systems now used on motor cars with 200 wiring diagrams and giving special attention to trouble shooting and repairs. D. P. Moreton and D. S. Hatch. 591p. $3.50.
Describes and illustrates in detail the various electrical installations employed in igniting the gas, starting the motor and supplying light for the lamps of automobiles of all types. Particular attention is given to systems used on Ford cars.
The book is addressed to car owners and repairmen, and some knowledge of the fundamental principles of the electric circuit is presupposed.
The same authors’, “Electrical equipment of the motor car”, (U. P. C. book co., 1920, $3.50) considers the more elementary phases of the subject, without describing the special installations which form the subject of the more recent book.
Senior author is associate professor of electrical engineering, Armour Institute of Technology.
=Practical trade mathematics for electricians, machinists, carpenters, plumbers and others.= J. A. Moyer and C. H. Sampson. Wiley. 172p. $1.50.
A practical elementary mathematics for adult students. All the problems relate to operations familiar to the men in their various occupations, and unusual mathematical terms are avoided. Numerous problems and worked-out examples are provided, the electrical problems being grouped separately.
Senior author was formerly in charge of division of electrical calculations in the General Electric Company; the junior author is head of technical and mathematical departments, Huntington School, Boston, Mass.
=Interior electric wiring.= A. L. Nelson. American Technical Society. 265p. $2.50.
A practical book, of the correspondence school type, on the installation of electric wiring in buildings, with directions for wiring for special purposes.
=Shop mathematics=; a treatise on applied mathematics dealing with various machine-shop and tool-room problems, and containing numerous examples illustrating their solution and the practical application of useful rules and formulas. Erik Oberg and F. D. Jones. Industrial press. 280p. $3.00.
A practical mathematics designed to teach the machinist or apprentice learning machine shop practice how to perform the calculating necessary in his work.
Authors are respectively editor and associate editor of _Machinery_.
=The English of commerce.= J. B. Opdycke. Scribner. 435p. $2.00.
A high school text-book teaching the choice of words, spelling, construction of sentences, paragraphs and letters for business purposes. Contains also sections on newspapers and magazines, advertising, business talk, sales and advertising literature, abbreviations and special terms, proofreading, business forms, etc. Examples of good and bad usage are given in the various sections. The book could be studied with profit by young business people who have gone through school without instruction in the writing of business English.
=Motor boats and boat motors=; design, construction, operation and repair; a complete handbook for all interested in motor boats, considering all details of modern hulls and marine motors. Deals with boat construction, design and types of power plants, installation of engines, and all phases of motor boat and engine care, operation and repair. Written by a corps of experts; compiled and edited by V. W. Page. Includes complete working drawings and full instructions for building five boats, ranging in size from a sixteen-foot general utility model to a twenty-five foot raised cabin cruiser, by A. C. Leitch. A special chapter on seaplanes and flying boats is included. Fully illustrated with 374 illustrations. Henley. 524p. $4.00.